Core Life

Full Title or Meme

To deeply understand any complex subject, like life, it is helpful to list out the minimal features of some object that would allow us to classify that object as life.

Context

As we begin to explore the developing field of Artificial Intelligence it becomes interesting to understand the difference between Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. For an intelligence to be considered natural, we assume here that means that is is base in a life form. The page will explore that a minimal life form would be.

• Life = persistent, identifiable processes that can retain their Complexity and replicate.
• Unit of Life = the lineage of information propagating across space an time.

• Change and Evolution

• Emergent Behavior