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.

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• A living system is software reprogrammable to the extent that stimuli can be used to alter its behavior and functionality, as opposed to needing physical rewiring.claim0.869
  Proposed continuous redefinition of software/hardware distinction applicable to biological adaptation
• 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.claim0.803
  The paper's proposed expansion of 'program' to encompass biological computation
• 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.claim0.794
  The paper's proposed new definition of 'machine' that includes domesticated organisms and synthetic organisms
• Physiological software dynamics, not genetic hardware, determine organism phenotype.claim0.776
  Authors' central interpretive assertion: genome specifies cell-level components but outcome is product of dynamics not easily predicted from genetic sequence.
• 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.claim0.765
  Paper's ontological characterization of software enabling cyberanimism
• 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.claim0.763
  The paper's proposed new definition of 'robot' as a continuum rather than binary category
• The material implementation and back-story of a given system are not sufficient information to reliably place it into a category of machine vs. living being.claim0.757
  Core ontological claim: composition and origin story are contingent, not essential, classifiers
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.756
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.