What is a Parasite? Defining reaction and network properties in an open ended automata chemistry

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Abstract

Open-ended novelty is one of the goals of ALife. This provides challenges for analysis as the system evolves. We provide definitions for several emergent properties, such as parasitism and hypercycles, observed to emerge in an RNA world configuration of the Stringmol automata chemistry, and show how these can simultaneously be mathematically simple, capture the complexity of the processes, and be readily implementable.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Life Conference Proceedings
Subtitle of host publicationThe 2021 Conference on Artificial Life
PublisherMIT Press
Pages598-606
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 19 Jul 2021
EventALife 2021, Prague, Czech Republic (virtual), July 2021 -
Duration: 19 Jul 202123 Jul 2021

Conference

ConferenceALife 2021, Prague, Czech Republic (virtual), July 2021
Abbreviated titleALife 2021
Period19/07/2123/07/21

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