Requirements for Open-Ended Evolution in Natural and Artificial Systems
Abstract
Open-ended evolutionary dynamics remains an elusive goal for artificial evolutionary systems. Many ideas exist in the biological literature beyond the basic Darwinian requirements of variation, differential reproduction and inheritance. I argue that these ideas can be seen as aspects of five fundamental requirements for open-ended evolution: (1) robustly reproductive individuals, (2) a medium allowing the possible existence of a practically unlimited diversity of individuals and interactions, (3) individuals capable of producing more complex offspring, (4) mutational pathways to other viable individuals, and (5) drive for continued evolution. I briefly discuss implications of this view for the design of artificial systems with greater evolutionary potential.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1507.07403,
title = {Requirements for Open-Ended Evolution in Natural and Artificial Systems},
author = {Tim Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07403},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Presented at the EvoEvo Workshop at the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015 (ECAL 2015), University of York, UK, July 2015