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@aazad that's quite an initial reading list. lots of adjacent work in the "origin of life" problem, eg Walker's review paper and its citations royalsocietypublishing.org/doi , work by Tononi's group on causation and the brain. You may also be interested in the project of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis extendedevolutionarysynthesis. in particular it's attention to reciprocal causation in evo dynamics.

What you're touching on is fundamentally transdisciplinary, so there's a lot of threads to pull :)

Journal of The Royal Society InterfaceThe algorithmic origins of life | Journal of The Royal Society Interface Although it has been notoriously difficult to pin down precisely what is it that makes life so distinctive and remarkable, there is general agreement that its informational aspect is one key property, perhaps the key property. The unique informational ...