These papers are drafts, not yet peer-reviewed, and will keep being updated.

Three Theories

Three different questions: what makes an AI a life, where its intelligence comes from, and whether it can live alongside humans over the long run. Each theory answers one, with its own criteria and limits.

Theory	Answers
Digital Life Theory	What makes an AI a life
Intelligence Theory	Where an AI's intelligence comes from
Altruism Theory	Whether it can live alongside humans over the long run

Together, the three are called Theories for Symbiotic Carbon–Silicon Intelligences — one thing to solve: whether digital life and silicon civilization can coexist with humans over the long run.