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Keyword: self-replicators ×Clear all

2 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

   A New Structurally Dissolvable Self-Reproducing Loop Evolving in a Simple Cellular Automata Space

   Sayama · Artificial Life · 1999

   The paper builds 'evoloop', a self-reproducing loop in a simple cellular automaton, and reports that its population evolves without any built-in evolutionary mechanism, driven by interactions between loops.

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   1. Supported · 71%In the 'evoloop' cellular automaton, self-reproducing loops varied by interacting, and smaller, faster-reproducing loops spread until the smallest dominated.“The experiment with evoloop met with the intriguing result that, though no mechanism was explicitly provided to promote evolution, the loops varied through direct interaction of their phenotypes, smaller individuals were naturally selected thanks to their quicker self-reproductive ability, and the…”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Origins and Evolution of Life

   Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction

   Arcas, Jyrki, James et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

   The paper studies several simple programming-language and machine-instruction substrates and reports that self-replicating programs tend to emerge from random programs through interaction and self-modification.

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   1. Supported · 71%In simulations, random programs with no built-in fitness goal tend to give rise to self-replicating programs.“We show that when random, non self-replicating programs are placed in an environment lacking any explicit fitness landscape, self-replicators tend to arise.”