Core Life
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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. [1]
- Assembly Theory = count of the steps required for the universe to assemble units from their smaller parts. Life appears to require 15 steps at a minimum.
- Unit of Life = the lineage of information propagating across space an time.[2]
- Physicist's view of life = the laws of physics have sufficient explanatory power to cover what happens for the low-level things reality is made of, maybe that really is enough to explain it all. The rest is just a constrained outcome within those laws. [3]
- Change and Evolution
References
- ↑ Max Tegmark Life 3.0. (2017) ISBN 9781101946596
- ↑ Sara Imari Walker, Life as No One Knows It Riverhead (2024) ISBN 9780593191897
- ↑ Brian Greene, UNTIL THE END OF TIME - Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe ISBN 9780525432173
