We address the question of what kind of test could be implemented to establish whether an artificial system is living or not with a computability and programmability test as advanced in. We claim that necessary conditions for life are non-linear behavioural variability and sensitivity to external stimuli.
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31719-2-ch188
Testing biological models for non-linear sensitivity with a programmability test .pdf
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