Requirements for Open-Ended Evolution in Natural and Artificial Systems
By Tim Taylor. 2015
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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.
Subfields: Genetics, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science
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- Emergent Tool Use From Multi-Agent Autocurricula (2019, background): “More recent work attempted to formulate necessary preconditions for open-ended evolution [25, 26].”
- Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE Workshop in York (2016, unknown): “The talk was based upon a paper [50] presented at the EvoEvo Workshop(6) at the same ECAL 2015 conference.”