Updated Robot Definition: a machine capable of physical actions with direct world impacts, able to sense repercussions, partly or completely independent of human action — not binary but a spectrum determined by degree of autonomous control.

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• 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.claim0.812
  The paper's proposed new definition of 'machine' that includes domesticated organisms and synthetic organisms
• 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.claim0.763
  The paper's proposed dissolution of binary software/hardware distinction into a continuum
• The embodied/disembodied distinction between robots and AI is collapsing.claim0.743
  Embodied AI, self-modeling robots, and 'life as it could be' blur the brain-body Cartesian divide.
• Lanillos et al. 2020: Robot Self/Other Distinction (ECAI 2020)concept0.732
  Prior model using active inference for self-other distinction in mirror setting; lacks motivation source
• 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.claim0.729
  The paper's proposed expansion of 'program' to encompass biological computation
• A soft robot recovers from unexpected physical injury faster by contorting its body into a new shape (hardware change) rather than learning a compensating gait (software change).finding0.724
  Empirical inversion of the assumption that hardware changes are harder than software changes
• Robot Swarmsconcept0.720
  Robots trained to exhibit useful emergent behavior whose global behavior is irreducible to individual actions, used to argue against machine predictability
• At what point does one go from a 'real person with perhaps some irrelevant mechanical augmentations' to a 'robot that is just simulating their social interactions'?question0.720
  Highlights the difficulty of distinguishing personhood based on composition or origin.