We could say that yeah. It's not unlike an os process with a pid. You can monitor the process using a pid, you can kill it, you can trace it, gets it stack trac

We could say that yeah. It's not unlike an os process with a pid. You can monitor the process using a pid, you can kill it, you can trace it, gets it stack trace etc. But unlike an OS process it also has a mailbox associated with it, so you can send it message and it can receive and pattern match on them.