Living Computation - by Dave Ackley: https://livingcomputation.com/lc/d/ae/machine.html
"Once a universal machine can and does acquire new programming on the fly from its environment, it loses the rigidity, predictability, and context-independence that is much of what we had taken as defining a machine. Why do we still call it a machine? Shouldn’t we call it something else?" - Dave Ackley
A half-hour introduction to concepts of artificial life - by Dave Ackley: #ALife
Rethinking machines - talk by Dave Ackley: