This idea was first explored, I believe, by G.J. Chaitin in 1970 in his essay 'To a Mathematical Definition of "Life"' https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/s

This idea was first explored, I believe, by G.J. Chaitin in 1970 in his essay 'To a Mathematical Definition of "Life"' https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/sicact.pdf https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/sicact.pdf Cool to see further work done on this.