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closeAny likelihood of Open Ended Evolution in this system?
Posted by alastair on 02 Oct 2015 at 10:42 GMT
I would be interested to know if there is any likelihood of observing Open Ended Evolution in this system? If there is, it would be interesting to see an analysis based on evolutionary activity statistics [1, 2].
[1] http://people.reed.edu/~m...
[2] http://www.channon.net/al...
RE: Any likelihood of Open Ended Evolution in this system?
rgras replied to alastair on 02 Oct 2015 at 19:08 GMT
Hello Alastair,
We had never had time to test the criterion proposed to evaluate open-ended evolution.
We though that there is good chance that it is the case. Our system seems to continuously generate new behavioral models in response to the evolution of other behavioral models (co-evolution) and to the change in environment.
We measured the entropy of our population of genomes and observed that the entropy is first fast increasing before stabilizing at an intermediate (between randomness and convergence) value. It seems to stay very stable at this level for a very long time at least as long as we have already tested (~50,000 time steps).
However, it is something that we would like to test more formally in the future.
Robin