Open AccessOpen-Ended Evolution and Open-Endedness: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution I Special Issue
Author(s) -
Norman H. Packard,
Mark A. Bedau,
Alastair Chan,
Takashi Ikegami,
Steen Rasmussen,
Kenneth O. Stanley,
Tim Taylor
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
artificial life
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1530-9185
pISSN - 1064-5462
DOI - 10.1162/artl_e_00282
Subject(s) - artificial life , computer science , diversity (politics) , darwin (adl) , function (biology) , productivity , process (computing) , feature (linguistics) , field (mathematics) , cognitive science , artificial intelligence , data science , sociology , evolutionary biology , biology , philosophy , psychology , software engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics , macroeconomics , anthropology , economics , operating system , linguistics
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.
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