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The contribution provides an example of how a formal model of some life-like functions – the so called eco-grammar (EG) system – provides a framework in which it is formally provable that the computational power of the model – under some very natural circumstances derived from the specificities of living systems, esp. from their embodiment – may overcome the computational limits of traditional computing models, perhaps also the computational power of the universal Turing machine.
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Kelemen, J. (2005). May Embodiment Cause Hyper-Computation?. In: Capcarrère, M.S., Freitas, A.A., Bentley, P.J., Johnson, C.G., Timmis, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3630. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553090_4
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