Updated Program Definition: an abstract multiply-realizable procedure that need not be written by humans, need not be linear, and includes distributed stochastic evolved strategies such as those of nervous systems and non-neural cellular collectives.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Updated Software/Hardware Definition: a continuous variant — a living system is software reprogrammable to the extent stimuli can alter its behavior, as opposed to needing physical rewiring; the binary distinction is not useful.claim0.803
  The paper's proposed dissolution of binary software/hardware distinction into a continuum
• Updated Machine Definition: any system that magnifies and partly or completely automates an agent's ability to effect change on the world, composed of parts several steps from raw materials, using rationally discoverable principles of physics and computation.claim0.791
  The paper's proposed new definition of 'machine' that includes domesticated organisms and synthetic organisms
• The step-by-step evolution of living centers, in a progressive differentiating process, is a biological necessity — an essential part of the adaptation of a complex system.claim0.758
  Claims that unfolding is not a stylistic choice but a biological requirement for adaptive buildings.
• A system with high integrated information but no goals, or a global workspace broadcasting non-evaluative content, would not be conscious on the present accountclaim0.758
  Point of genuine disagreement with IIT and GWT
• A computer program is not defined by its language or hardware but as an abstract causal pattern, a dynamic mathematical structure that influences the physical universe without violating its causal closure.claim0.754
  Paper's ontological characterization of software enabling cyberanimism
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.752
• "The most sophisticated building techniques of the future will be those where each operation modifies, without backtracking, the product of the previous operations. Such processes generate well-adapted variety, cheaply and easily."quote0.751
  Alexander's predictive claim about optimal future construction methodology.
• A realization of our own multiscale, nested architecture naturally leads to the conclusion that care needs to be extended to all sentient beings.claim0.748
  Extends ethical concern based on the collective nature of selves.