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Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-Life
Federico Pigozzi, Michael Levin
The paper investigates how causal structure emerges in a catalytic network model (GARD) before self-replicators appear, showing that increasing causal emergence predicts and suppor…
Limbomorphs
Alex Alvarez, Michael Levin
Artificial life systems are typically defined by a set of dynamical rules over an environment, an agent, or both, from which lifelike patterns may emerge. Gifbreeder is an animated…
Open Questions about Time and Self-reference in Living Systems
Samson Abramsky, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Leo S. D. Caves +5
Living systems exhibit a range of fundamental characteristics: they are active, self-referential, self-modifying systems. This paper explores how these characteristics create chall…
Agnosiophobia in a virtual agent: behavioral and dynamical architecture in Lenia
Jesse Cool, Benedikt Hartl, Michael Levin +1
All embodied agents are fundamentally patterns in physiological or other excitable media, blurring the distinction between objects and processes. Emergent patterns with complex beh…
Training Ecosystems: A Computational Approach to Uncovering Learning Behavior in Unconventional Contexts
Adrita Samanta, Hananel Hazan, Michael Levin
Recent progress in diverse intelligence has shown simple learning capacities below the organism level - single cells and even molecular networks. However, there are still many know…
Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms
Yanbo Zhang, Benedikt Hartl, Hananel Hazan +1
In a convergence of machine learning and biology, we reveal that diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms. By considering evolution as a denoising process and reversed evolutio…