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Embodiment of the Game of Life

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Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann (ECAL 2009)

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In this paper, an expression of embodiment on computation and its effect are explored. By introducing the notion of latent state space, embodiment is formalized as an extension of state space and its projection process and resulting misidentification of states. Implementing this structure in the game of life, we investigate the relationships between the original system and misidentification of states by means of informational structures. As a result, we observe that, in particular case, misidentification affects the system’s behavior and is relevant to maintain the property of the original system.

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  1. Department of General Systems Sciences, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan

    Kohei Nakajima

  2. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

    Taichi Haruna

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  1. Department of Philosophy of Science, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

    George Kampis

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Box 70703, TN 37614, Johnson City, USA

    István Karsai

  3. Collegium Budapest, Szentháromság u.2, 1014, Budapest, Hungary

    Eörs Szathmáry

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Nakajima, K., Haruna, T. (2011). Embodiment of the Game of Life. In: Kampis, G., Karsai, I., Szathmáry, E. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann. ECAL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5777. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21283-3_10

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