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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The emergence of grid cells: Intelligent design or just adaptation?

   Kropff and Treves · Hippocampus · 2008

   A simplified model suggests grid cell patterns can self-organise within single cells through firing rate adaptation and slowly varying spatial inputs, with triangular grids favoured as end states.

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   1. UncheckedIn the authors' model, interactions among nearby grid units serve only to align them to one shared grid orientation.“The interactions among local ensembles of grid units serve solely to stabilize a common grid orientation.”

2. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

   Lenia: Biology of Artificial Life

   Kong and Chan · Complex Systems · 2019

   The paper presents Lenia, a continuous cellular automaton whose simulations produce many lifelike patterns, which the author surveys, classifies into a taxonomy and discusses in relation to biology and AI.

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   1. Supported · 71%In Lenia, a simulated artificial-life system, more than 400 species in 18 families have been identified, many found through interactive evolutionary computation.“More than 400 species in 18 families have been identified, many discovered via interactive evolutionary computation.”