Future Directions for Open-Ended Evolution in Software

• Focus on modelling environment, not organisms

• No predefined phenotypes; genotypes represent constraints that initiate environmental dynamics

  • cf. Pattee

• In this way, organisms can evolve to utilise any dynamics available in the environment

• We can therefore study evolution of sensors, actions and communication, up to a limit defined by the complexity of the given environment

  • But this can be very large (e.g. Emergent dynamics in cellular automata)

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