Journal article
Artificial cell division.
- Mange D Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Logic Systems Laboratory, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. daniel.mange@epfl.ch
- Stauffer A
- Petraglio E
- Tempesti G
- 2004-09-08
Published in:
- Bio Systems. - 2004
Algorithms
Animals
Artificial Intelligence
Biological Evolution
Cell Division
Cell Proliferation
Computer Simulation
Feedback
Humans
Models, Biological
English
After a survey of the theory and some realizations of self-replicating machines, this paper presents a novel self-replicating loop endowed with universal construction and computation properties. Based on the hardware implementation of the so-called Tom Thumb algorithm, the design of this loop leads to a new kind of cellular automaton made of a processing and a control units. The self-replication of the Swiss flag serves as an artificial cell division example of the loop which, according to autopoietic evaluation criteria, corresponds to a cell showing the phenomenology of a living system.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.05.010
- PMID 15351139
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/1673
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