agents assemble acording to "rule based pairing" such as chemistry.
these assemblages interact according to rule pairing.
these "rules" are naturaly emergent physical constraints on the spectrum of equilibrially driven interactions. add some thermokinetic motion, and you have a multi agent system, expressing rules between each other, cyclicly.
this results in a persistent central tendency of physical outcome based on rule pairing.
this is more like geometric progression, than computation.
Computation is vectors, vectors are information, intelligence is the determinant resolve of information.
That all fits.
Life is something else.
Further, it may be more honest to say life is a technology of consciousness (inflection upon the potential of existential being) rather than the other way around.
Life is something different than computation, however computation may shape the technology of life.
these assemblages interact according to rule pairing.
these "rules" are naturaly emergent physical constraints on the spectrum of equilibrially driven interactions. add some thermokinetic motion, and you have a multi agent system, expressing rules between each other, cyclicly.
this results in a persistent central tendency of physical outcome based on rule pairing.
this is more like geometric progression, than computation.