Prof Peter Andras P.Andras@napier.ac.uk
Dean of School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
Modeling living systems
Andras, Peter
Authors
Abstract
A fundamental issue of evolution of life is the emergence and maintenance of self-referential autocatalytic systems (e.g. living cells). In this paper the problem is analyzed from a computational perspective. It is proposed that such systems have to be infinite autocatalytic systems, which can be considered equivalent to Turing machines. The implication of this is that searching for finite autocatalytic systems is likely to not be successful, and any such finite system would be maintainable only in a highly stable environment. The infiniteness of autocatalytic systems also implies that top-down search for the simplest living system is likely to stop at relatively complex cells that are still able to provide a realization of infinite autocatalytic systems.
Citation
Andras, P. (2009). Modeling living systems. In Advances in Artificial Life: Darwin Meets von Neumann, 10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (208-215). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21314-4_26
Conference Name | ECAL: European Conference on Artificial Life |
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Conference Location | Budapest, Hungary |
Start Date | Sep 13, 2009 |
End Date | Sep 16, 2009 |
Publication Date | 2009 |
Deposit Date | Nov 17, 2021 |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 208-215 |
Series Title | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Series Number | 5778 |
Series ISSN | 1611-3349 |
Book Title | Advances in Artificial Life: Darwin Meets von Neumann, 10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II |
ISBN | 978-3-642-21313-7 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21314-4_26 |
Keywords | autocatalysis, computation, formal model, self-reference, infinite model |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2809313 |
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