2 papers
cs.NE2026
Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup
Francesco Cicala, Eyvind Niklasson, Ettore Randazzo +8
While traditional evolutionary algorithms hard-code reproduction, self-replication can emerge spontaneously within digital ``primordial soups''. This paper investigates the co-evol…
nlin.CG2025
Flow-Lenia: Emergent evolutionary dynamics in mass conservative continuous cellular automata
Erwan Plantec, Gautier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry +3
Central to the artificial life endeavour is the creation of artificial systems spontaneously generating properties found in the living world such as autopoiesis, self-replication,…