There was a lecture hosted by the Santa Fe Institute titled, "Computing, Life, & Intelligence" https://www.youtube.com/live/75PAyV83YqE?si=hJuQDXLzvo2iHEel .

A bold assertion is made that computation self-organizes from random building blocks, be it symbols (code) or life. And this applies at all scales. What substrate does the self-organizing take place on? In the lecture, it is repeated movements, again from code to life, that are needed. In HOP, the coherence ledger provides a substrate for a single peer to combine computations and provides a basis for trust between two or more peers to participate in decentralized machine learning. The precursor to DML is a compute-engine, and that is what beebee is getting right now: the ability to take any computation and run it on local data.