PRIMORDIAL SOUP. “Chou and Reggia explored the possibility of creating a CA universe, a “primordial soup,” in which self-replicating structures are not inoculated ab initio, but rather emerge in a spontaneous manner. Toward this end, they introduced a CA model in which the cellular state is divided into four distinct bit fields, thus facilitating the emergence of self-replication.” (CA = cellular automata).
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