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by hirundo 2256 days ago
> Turing-completeness (TC) is ... the property of a system being able to ... compute any program of interest, including another computer in some form.

So Turing completeness implies recursive Turing completeness. It is the theoretical threshold at which a device is capable of reproduction, a sort Schwarzschild radius for complex, heritable behavior, aka life.