Evolved Open-Endedness, Not Open-Ended Evolution by Pattee, H. H., & Sayama, H. (2019)

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(Pattee, Sayama 2019)

Summary

Evolution need not have been inherently open-ended in nature, because from a simple cell evolving in a complex self-organising environment new mechanisms might have been created by the organisms themself, effectively rendering them “more” open-ended. Symbolic languages are a striking example of this phenomenon: an open-ended descriptive power where the complexity of the environment is not limiting because language can refer itself recursively to build on its complexity.

Bibliography

1. Howard H. Pattee, Hiroki Sayama. April 2019. "Evolved Open-endedness, Not Open-ended Evolution". Artificial Life 25 (1):4–8. DOI.