> There's always been a question about whether a program is something alive or not since it intrinsically has some kind of autonomy at the very least, or it wou

> There's always been a question about whether a program is something alive or not since it intrinsically has some kind of autonomy at the very least, or it wouldn't be a program. Huh? A program, by definition, has no autonomy. Given its inputs, it performs the appropriate sequence of actions it has been programmed to perform. At no point is it governing its own behavior. Can anybody name a single realizable program that exhibits autonomy? Even machine learning algorithms, which adapt to their input, are deterministic and incapable of self-governance. Given identical initial conditions and inputs, the machine learning program will generate identical deterministic output.