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Chemlambda, universality and self-multiplication

Artificial Intelligence 2019-02-20 v1 Geometric Topology Logic

Abstract

We present chemlambda (or the chemical concrete machine), an artificial chemistry with the following properties: (a) is Turing complete, (b) has a model of decentralized, distributed computing associated to it, (c) works at the level of individual (artificial) molecules, subject of reversible, but otherwise deterministic interactions with a small number of enzymes, (d) encodes information in the geometrical structure of the molecules and not in their numbers, (e) all interactions are purely local in space and time. This is part of a larger project to create computing, artificial chemistry and artificial life in a distributed context, using topological and graphical languages.

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@article{arxiv.1403.8046,
  title  = {Chemlambda, universality and self-multiplication},
  author = {Marius Buliga and Louis H. Kauffman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.8046},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

8 pages, 21 colour figures, conference paper submitted to ALIFE 14

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