For those who are not aware of digital evolution, I am writing a quick short summary. Digital evolution means evolution of computer programs who compete for li

For those who are not aware of digital evolution, I am writing a quick short summary. Digital evolution means evolution of computer programs who compete for limited resources such as CPU and memory. In short, it goes something like this: - You define a universe, which is virtual memory (space) and CPU (time) - You create energy (CPU cycles) - You define an extremely limited instruction set for Virtual Machine (Physics). Instruction set being limited is important because you want to mimic physics, not chemistry or biology - You seed randomly generated programs of varying length - You start parallel execution the random programs - Each instruction eats up energy and at random times you feed energy into universe - At random times mis-execute program instructions - Run it for a long time and Voila! finally self replication gets evolved from very simple instructions - Then arms race gets started between programs and things get interesting Some people argue that digital evolution is not merely an emulation of real thing but is indeed a real manifestation of evolution and I tend to believe the same. PS: I will admit that I haven't run it for long so if you find interesting results, do let me know