Tootfinder

@… Your episode 52 on emotions had me wondering if you'd ever done anything on Maturana and Varela's ideas of autopoiesis and (loose) structural coupling. I'd be interested to hear you on that, also because these were ideas outside software actually applied to software via Winograd and Flores' _Understanding Computers and Cognition_. Lots of animal per…

Flow-Lenia: Emergent evolutionary dynamics in mass conservative continuous cellular automata
Erwan Plantec, Gautier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry, Bert Wang-Chak Chan, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Cl\'ement Moulin-Frier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08569

Flow-Lenia: Emergent evolutionary dynamics in mass conservative continuous cellular automata
Central to the artificial life endeavour is the creation of artificial systems spontaneously generating properties found in the living world such as autopoiesis, self-replication, evolution and open-endedness. While numerous models and paradigms have been proposed, cellular automata (CA) have taken a very important place in the field notably as they enable the study of phenomenons like self-reproduction and autopoiesis. Continuous CA like Lenia have been showed to produce life-like patterns rem…