2023-09-13 19:29 UTC
@yoginho@spore.social @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org
On that topic: I am reminded of this paper by Roth et al. 2007 on "The self-construction and-repair of a foraging organism by explicitly specified development from a single cell" https://direct.mit.edu/artl/article-abstract/13/4/347/2575 (Free PDF here: https://direct.mit.edu/artl/article-pdf/13/4/347/1662436/artl.2007.13.4.347.pdf)
The authors describe and implement a self-constructing virtual organism capable of Braitenberg vehicle-like properties and which can self-repair in response to damage. The properties of the damaged organism are quite interesting, in that its performance as a vehicle degrades gracefully rather than catastrophically.
#neuroscience #ArtificialLife #BraitenbergVehicle
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-13 19:46
@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org Interesting paper. But it's a computational model, so not really self-manufacturing & capable of open-ended evolution... Then again, I am definitely aspiring to degrading gracefully, rather than catastrophically! That's a rather poetic abstract for an engineering paper ;-)