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Robotics => Robotics News => Topic started by: Tyler on March 12, 2008, 04:01:35 pm
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The Ultimate Future of Artificial Life
A new philosophical paper by Clement Vidal of the
Evolution, Complexity, and
Cognition group at Vrije University Brussels has been released
online. The paper is titled The Ultimate Future of Artficial
Life: Towards Artficial Cosmogenesis (PDF format). It offers
speculations on the ultimate goal of artificial life simulations, which the
author believes will expand to simulate open-ended evolution, including
both physical and cultural evolution. He ponders what it would mean if,
eventually, the entire Universe could be simulated well enough to find
out what happens if we "replay the tape of the Universe" - what would
stay the same and what would change if we ran the Universe back and started
it over again? He notes that, if life doesn't self-destruct in the
meantime, this would eventually become a critical research tool. Why?
Because the longest term problem faced by life is the eventual
heat-death of the Universe. The author speculates that by overriding
Cosmological Natural Selection (CNS) with Cosmological Artifcial
Selection (CAS) our descendants may be able to produce a new Universe
with more suitable characteristics.
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