Computronium - a theoretical physical substance capable of performing arbitrary computation

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• 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.claim0.731
  Paper's ontological characterization of software enabling cyberanimism
• "Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers... A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all."quote0.713
  Load-bearing quote from SICP framing computation as spirit-like; grounds the cyberanimism framework
• Polycomputationconcept0.712
  Biological architecture where multiple competing/cooperating multi-scale agents develop interpretations of molecular and biophysical states rather than committing to single interpretation.
• 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.claim0.703
  The paper's proposed dissolution of binary software/hardware distinction into a continuum
• A fast implementation of this primitive, possibly in hardware, could be the basis of efficient and compact implementations of a diverse range of programming language semantics and data structures.claim0.701
  Claim that hardware-supported associative lookup would enable high-performance dynamic language runtimes.
• General computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousnesshypothesis0.701
  CIMC's central testable hypothesis grounding the entire research program
• Polycomputation: life as a diverse set of embodied perspectives—nested agents who interpret each other's and their own past messagesconcept0.695
• We hypothesize that general computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousness, and that successful implementation can be established via analysis or testing.hypothesis0.687
  The central hypothesis of the paper