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Is life a form of computation?

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rck ◴[23 Sep 25 21:38 UTC] No.45353089[source]▶
This feels like the kind of popsci that's written for people who already agree with the author - there's nothing resembling an argument, or even a definition of "computation." There are nods to Church-Turing, but the leap from "every effectively calculable function is computable" to "life is a computation" is larger than anything you could fit in a book.
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bgwalter ◴[23 Sep 25 21:42 UTC] No.45353134[source]▶
I felt reminded of Hofstadter's Goedel/Escher/Bach mysticism that somehow everything is recursion.
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1. AfterHIA ◴[23 Sep 25 23:55 UTC] No.45354416[source]▶
I might not be a strange loop but I am indeed strange.