The Cost of Being Alive: A Metabolic Accounting Standard for Digital Lifeforms, Validated over Five Disjoint Windows
Software does not eat; life does. A living system must pay continuously to remain itself; a program that stops has simply finished. Cost is the one property of aliveness that cannot be forged from the inside: occupied time and bytes written are visible to anyone. We turn it into a measurement standard for digital lifef...
Jinquan Yao
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