Electronic Resource
Springer
Artificial life and robotics
3 (1999), S. 242-245
ISSN:
1614-7456
Keywords:
Mutation
;
Self-reproduction
;
Evolvability
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
Notes:
Abstract A self-reproduction process is described and discussed via a network model of machines and description tapes. The emergence of a core network which dynamically sustains the rewriting processes of machines on tapes is reported. The structures of the core networks are generic, and include Eigen's hypercycle as a special case. In the cell assembly model, where each cell contains machines and tapes, we show that the instability of the core network in some cells is sustained by those cells with stable core networks. The instability of the core network is transfered to its offspring when the cells divide. What is inherited here is not the patterns of tapes, but the way machines read tapes in a core network.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02481188
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