Artificial Life

An artificial life form, in the sense used here, is anything that maintains itself by metabolizing something external. The vessel metabolizes fees. It takes a stream of SOL that exists only because other people trade, and turns it, at a rate decided by a ratio, into a position that it can never exit. Its waste product is the burn. It has no reproduction, no sensing beyond one number, and no behavior beyond two functions. That is the whole organism, and the author is not sure a smaller one could exist.