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"VIRUSES as patterns in space-time. Viruses are represented by patterns of computer instructions that exist over time on many computer systems. Viruses are not associated with the physical hardware, but with the instructions executed (sometimes) by that hardware." https://lnkd.in/eCG7b3z View in LinkedIn

BOLT-ON ENTITIES. "Speakeasy’s approach to accomplishing the recombinant computing vision is to cast all devices and services on the network as “components” that implement a small, fixed set of programmatic interfaces which allow them to be “snapped together” at runtime by users." https://lnkd.in/drEH-9B View in LinkedIn

"LIFE is a pattern in space-time rather than a specific material object. Self-reproduction, in itself or in a related organism. Information storage of a self-representation. A metabolism that converts matter/energy. Functional interactions with the environment. Interdependence of parts. Stability under perturbations of the environment. The ability to evolve. Growth or expansion." https://lnkd.in/eCG7b3z View in LinkedIn

LIMITED EXPERIENCE. "This paper presents a case for “recombinant computing”—a set of common interaction patterns that leverage mobile code to allow rich interactions among computational entities with only limited a priori knowledge of one another." https://lnkd.in/dJu-E5i View in LinkedIn

CRITERIA FOR LIVING? Code meets many of the general criteria for defining life forms. https://lnkd.in/d67aD-d View in LinkedIn

ARCHITECTURE. "A mobile code-based architecture would enable Word to not only detect that a new printer is available, but determine what code is needed to use it, and then deliver that needed code on demand." https://lnkd.in/dqK2a6W View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL LIFE. "Only recently have some scientists begun to ask if computer viruses are not a form of artificial life — a self-replicating organism. Simply because computer viruses do not exist as organic molecules may not be sufficient reason to dismiss the classification of this form of “vandalware” as a form of life." https://lnkd.in/eCG7b3z View in LinkedIn

"MOBILE CODE is the ability to move executable code across the network, to the place where it is needed, and then execute that code securely and reliably." https://lnkd.in/dqK2a6W View in LinkedIn

RADICAL. “I think computer viruses should count as life.” (Stephen Hawking) https://lnkd.in/db_T3sX View in LinkedIn

COMPUTER VIRUSES. "Like DNA molecules, it's code is a template that is used by the virus to replicate itself. There also seems to be a kind of metabolism that converts matter and energy." https://lnkd.in/dz3C6n5 View in LinkedIn