When I was young and heard people talking about plant spirits, I thought they were superstitious. Now I think they used on old word for “operating system”. Every complex organism implements a complex software that regulates its own dynamics and its relationship to other organisms
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Is it? My, maybe naive def. would be that SW is the spec. of a computation that requires a machine (a computer) to be executed. SW is not a machine itself. Ultimately a machine requires a physical substrate, matter and energy.
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What is a computer without an observer that ascribes this process a computational function?https://twitter.com/FroehlichMarcel/status/1196891174868377600?s=20 …
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