the idea of equating software to life itself is quite limited ... life is frequency based, software can only ever approximate life by representing it numerical

the idea of equating software to life itself is quite limited ... life is frequency based, software can only ever approximate life by representing it numerically, binarily (??) take sound, real sound is something that has a frequency spectrum, with harmonics ... fourier analysis allows us to take a snapshot of the wave, which approximates the wave, yet never represents it's full frequency spectrum - because it's impossible to do that ... to boil life itself down to something which can be represented numerically (or even verbally for that matter) kinda misses the point ... The essence of life will always be absent from such an approximation ...