Lessons from previous work

• Evolutionary processes are very dull with no interaction between organisms

  • e.g. Barricelli's first expts, RNA evolution in vitro

• Addition of interactions greatly increases complexity of evolved dynamics

  • e.g. Barricelli's expts with symbiosis, Sims' creatures

• But still hard to evolve interactions based upon new information channels

  • The exceptions being the work of Pask and Bird & Layzell. These were both physically-situated

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