Do you consider digital organisms, as in the ones in programs like
Evolve 4.0, to be living?
Why/ Why not?
I, personally consider them to be living things because they evolve, have genetic code, reproduce, eat, and are made of cells.
I've been playing with Evolve 4 for a while now, and I've seen some pretty amazing things with the little programs that evolve out of some of the simulations I've run. Such as an organism that avoided barriers by several cells, or an organism that actively searched for spores to fertilize.