Open-Ended Evolution and Open-Endedness: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution I Special Issue.

Channon

Abstract

Nature's spectacular inventiveness, reflected in the enormous diversity of form and function displayed by the biosphere, is a feature of life that distinguishes living most strongly from nonliving. It is, therefore, not surprising that this aspect of life should become a central focus of artificial life. We have known since Darwin that the diversity is produced dynamically, through the process of evolution; this has led life's creative productivity to be called Open-Ended Evolution (OEE) in the field. This article introduces the first of two special issues on current research on OEE and on the more general concept of open-endedness. Most of the papers presented in these special issues are elaborations of work presented at the Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution, held in Tokyo as part of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life.

Citation

Channon. (2019). Open-Ended Evolution and Open-Endedness: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution I Special Issue. Artificial Life, 1 - 3. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_e_00282

• Acceptance Date: Mar 22, 2019
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2019
• Journal: Artificial Life
• Print ISSN: 1064-5462
• Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
• Pages: 1 - 3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_e_00282
• Publisher URL: https://direct.mit.edu/artl/article/25/1/1/2910/Open-Ended-Evolution-and-Open-Endedness-Editorial