Month: September 2022

MOLECULAR DOMINANCE. "More interestingly, we repeatedly observe the emergence of a molecular species that does not self-replicate but drives evolution to a state where the system is dominated for a long period by two co-dependent replicase species that are not self-maintaining. This is a catalytic hypercycle." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

TRANSIENT SPECIES. "The mutation rate delivers a mean time of 18,700 time steps for the creation of new molecular species. The majority of these new mutations are not “fixed” in the population and go extinct very quickly. Occasionally a new species arises that has some advantage over the current dominant species." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR EXTINCTION. "All trials end when no molecules exist in the system. This occurs when there is a catastrophic decline in replicating molecules. The common cause of this is when a new ‘parasitic’ molecule arises that is 1) incapable of replicating itself, and 2) copied by the incumbent replicase at a higher rate than the replicase." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

"SUB-POPULATIONS. These are species which persist in the community in fairly large numbers. These sub-populations are nearly always wiped out when a new epoch begins, demonstrating the biological phenomenon of selective sweeps." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

RARE EVENTS. "Occasionally a mutant causes a “cascade” of new molecules by triggering a sequence of new unseen molecules that quickly dominate the population." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

COPIER. "A hypercycle occurs when an enduring sub-population increases in number until it becomes co-dominant with a dominant species. The species forming the enduring sub-population is not self-maintaining, but acts as a copier for the dominant species." https://lnkd.in/dryBAUG View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX MOLECULES. "SimSoup model that is closer to real chemistry and more open ended. Molecules and the types of Interactions between them are constructed by the model itself using simple rules based on valence theory. Results of a preliminary run of the model are presented. Most of the Molecules produced are of a few simple types with low molecular weight. There is a ‘long tail’ of many low frequency Molecules, many of which are more complex with high molecular weight." https://lnkd.in/dEyx_i7 View in LinkedIn

“SWARM THEORY may be applied to Artificial Chemistry populations of mixed particles or even homogeneous particles. Although the simple agents in most swarms are infinitely more comp,ex than simple chemical agents, there may be some similarities. It may also apply to competing populations of computer code.” https://lnkd.in/dQPNQZa View in LinkedIn

COLLOID SWARMS. "The article describes swarm dynamics of a system composed of colloidal particles that release chemical signals to navigate their peers toward the location of a static point target in two dimensions." https://lnkd.in/dQPNQZa View in LinkedIn

SWARM INTELLIGENCE. "The collective intelligence of groups of simple agents... Autonomy, emergence and distributed functioning replace control, preprogramming and centralization." https://lnkd.in/dNa8D-D View in LinkedIn