Comment on "Self-organized criticality in living systems" by C. Adami
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2009-10-30 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Abstract
Following extensive numerical experiments, it has been suggested that the evolution of competing computer programs in artificial life simulations shows signs of being a self-organized critical process. The primary evidence for this claim comes from the distribution of the lifetimes of species in the simulations, which appears to follow a power law. We argue that, for a number of reasons, it is unlikely that the system is in fact at a critical point and suggest an alternative explanation for the power-law lifetime distribution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.adap-org/9702001,
title = {Comment on "Self-organized criticality in living systems" by C. Adami},
author = {M. E. J. Newman and Simon M. Fraser and Kim Sneppen and William A. Tozier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:adap-org/9702001},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, no figures, typeset in LaTeX2e using the Elsevier macro package elsart.cls