We give an operational definition of life: a family of self-referential dynamic functions that maintain decompression over time. The world is an emergent hierarchy of local decompressions. Today's frozen LLMs are a single decompression: they stop updating after training, so on this definition they are not alive for structural reasons, not for lack of scale. Series paper 1/5. Chinese original: 10.5281/zenodo.23488543.
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