Description
Chair: Uros Seljak
The universe is a system of small components with local interactions, forming self-organizing patterns like stars and galaxies. Like a virtual universe, Lenia is an abstract complex system that generates a huge variety of self-organizing patterns. These patterns demonstrate biology-like behaviors, e.g. self-replication, regeneration, swarming, and also physics-like ones, e.g. geometric symmetry, elastic collisions, and invariance under various substrates. I will describe several on-going research on Lenia, including searching for Lenia patterns using machine learning and evolutionary algorithms, measuring their spatio-temporal stability, and experimenting with new system dynamics like mass conservation and particle energy minimization.
