Susan Stepney - Innovation, Variation, and Emergence in an Automata Chemistry
Paper available at:
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/isal/32
Abstract: Open-ended novelty is one of the goals of ALife. We use a
recent definition of open-endedness, stated in terms of system
models and meta-models, to demonstrate how the Stringmol
Automata Chemistry achieves variation, innovation and
emergence in a replicator-parasite system. We also show how
Stringmol’s self-modifying code allows certain of these novelties
to be exploited within the system itself, while others are
only externally observed.