SFI Working Paper Abstract
1994
| Title: | The Evolution of Emergent Computation |
| Author(s): | James P. Crutchfield and Melanie Mitchell |
| Files: | [postscript] [pdf] |
| Paper #: | 94-03-012 |
| Abstract: | A simple evolutionary process can discover sophisticated methods for emergent information-processing in decentralized spatially extended systems. The mechanisms underlying the resulting emergent computation are explicated by a novel technique for analyzing particle-based logic embedded in pattern-forming systems. Understanding how globally coordinated computation can emerge in evolution is relevant both for the scientific understanding of natural information processing and for engineering new forms of parallel computing systems. |