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Assembly Theory is Cool, but it doesn't quite do what its inventors say it does
- oriel 3y agohttp only site, also very editorial/opinion style writing. https://archive.ph/NtXft https://archive.ph/NtXft > [Assembly Theory] is a neat and simple model for the combinatorial generation of innovation in rule-based abstract "worlds" of recombining objects. It is a model of how evolution (or other higher-level processes) can lead to complexification. Assembly Theory description links: - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9 (original paper) - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03061-y https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03061-y ("very well written news & views article (with a terrible clickbaity title)")