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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  4564 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bit by Bit: The Darwinian Basis of Life
    A genetic system that contains more bits than the number that were required to initiate its operation might reasonably be considered a new form of life.

It seems like this definition would include a machine that was created by another, less complex, machine. Not sure if that falls under the rubric of a "genetic system", but its plausible, if we define the bits of computer code as the robot's "genes".