Spent a long time as middle/high-schooler trying to figure out how to create very natural [[evolution]]/DNA in a simulated environment. I.e. an environment where the agents' genetic codes and inner workings are relatively mundane parts of the environment, but still can undergo substantial speciation and evolution. Like those old [[carykh]] videos, etc. but 'real'. No one has managed to do it since, to my understanding. Why?
- [[Flow-Lenia Mass Conservation]]
- Conservation laws
- [[chemical turing machines]]
- [[Emergence of Self-Reproducing Metabolisms as Recursive Algorithms in an Artificial Chemistry]]
- Non-spatial, has conservation laws, uses SKI combinators
- Some interesting complexity, but looks like early pre-life, RNA. Very minimal model of that, though
- Needs cell membranes in order to speciate further I think
- reminds of [[chemical turing machines]] ofc
- [[Hutton 2007]]