Self-Replication and Evolution in Digital Primordial Soup
vicgalle_ · hn · 2026-07-19
This arXiv paper investigates two core processes in the **digital primordial soup**: how **self-replication** and **functional formation** co-evolve. Rather than just focusing on systems that "can copy," the research explores how replication mechanisms and usable functions mutually reinforce and emerge together. This line of work is typically used to understand open-ended evolutionary systems, digital life, and emergence in complex systems.
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