From entropy to information: biased typewriters and the origin of life

C Adami, T LaBar - ar** self-replicating machines has approached the problem as an
engineering problem, using engineering materials and methods to implement an …

To evolve or not to evolve? That is the question

A Ellery, AE Eiben - Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
To evolve or not to evolve? That is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the
slings and arrows of grey goo, or to deny evolution to a sea of self-replicators and by …

Origin of life in a digital microcosm

N CG, T LaBar, A Hintze… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While all organisms on Earth share a common descent, there is no consensus on whether
the origin of the ancestral self-replicator was a one-off event or whether it only represented …

Evolvability tradeoffs in emergent digital replicators

T LaBar, A Hintze, C Adami - Artificial Life, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
The role of historical contingency in the origin of life is one of the great unknowns in modern
science. Only one example of life exists—one that proceeded from a single self-replicating …

[BOK][B] Extracting Structure and Function from Complex Systems Using Information-Theoretic Tools

CG Nitash - 2022 - search.proquest.com
One of the primary areas of scientific research is understanding how complex systems work,
both structurally and functionally. In the natural world, complex systems are very high …