[turingfeel]

The integration of spatiality seems to allow for greater modularity and sparsity, but I'm not yet sure that it implies an increase in intelligent ability. If anything it may hinder its capacity for computation.

[ofou]

My rationale comes back to the fact that biomolecule's function is dictated by its structure, so, it seems critical to have spatiality of some sort to achieve qualities of living systems.

[groestl]

You might mean that with "time", but I think recursiveness with a delay is the critical part (and to some extend, is achieved with spatiality).