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Evolution of Symbiosis in the Game of Life: Three Characteristics of Successful Symbiotes
Peter D. Turney
In past work, we developed a computational model of the evolution of symbiotic entities (Model-S), based on Conway's Game of Life. In this article, we examine three trends that bio…
Measuring Behavioural Similarity of Cellular Automata
Peter D. Turney
Conway's Game of Life is the best-known cellular automaton. It is a classic model of emergence and self-organization, it is Turing-complete, and it can simulate a universal constru…
Evolution of Autopoiesis and Multicellularity in the Game of Life
Peter D. Turney
Recently we introduced a model of symbiosis, Model-S, based on the evolution of seed patterns in Conway's Game of Life. In the model, the fitness of a seed pattern is measured by o…
Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution in Immigration Games
Peter D. Turney
The Immigration Game (invented by Don Woods in 1971) extends the solitaire Game of Life (invented by John Conway in 1970) to enable two-player competition. The Immigration Game can…
The Natural Selection of Words: Finding the Features of Fitness
Peter D. Turney, Saif M. Mohammad
We introduce a dataset for studying the evolution of words, constructed from WordNet and the Google Books Ngram Corpus. The dataset tracks the evolution of 4,000 synonym sets (syns…
Symbiosis Promotes Fitness Improvements in the Game of Life
Peter D. Turney
We present a computational simulation of evolving entities that includes symbiosis with shifting levels of selection. Evolution by natural selection shifts from the level of the or…