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Figure 20 from the paper is particularly interesting. Life solves multiple problems, and for unicellular life, one of them is the problem of locomotion. At leas
by dkural 8y ago
Figure 20 from the paper is particularly interesting. Life solves multiple problems, and for unicellular life, one of them is the problem of locomotion. At least here Lenia and real world biology seems to have some amount of overlap.
- ianai 8y agoIf there’s any overlap at such a simplified model then the simplified model just might be a good place to start figuring out the actual system.
- veddox 8y agoAll due respect - I think that for pretty much any simple shape you'll find an actual organism that "looks just like it".
- dkural 8y agoI do tend to agree that unicellular life has a mind boggling diversity of forms and you can find similarities to most things, simple or not-simple :) That said, humans have a very specific notion of "simple shape", intuitively incorporating symmetry into it. Symmetry is far from guaranteed in mathematics (although mathematicians, being human, also tend to search and study symmetric things). Even in the most symmetric objets - let's say groups, there are many more non-abelian (i.e. not commutative ab != ba) groups than there are commutative groups.