Evolution, Complexity, Entropy, and Artificial Reality

Thomas S. Ray
ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories
2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-02, Japan
ray@hip.atr.co.jp, ray@santafe.edu, ray@udel.edu

This work was supported by grants CCR-9204339 and BIR-9300800 from the United States National Science Foundation, a grant from the Digital Equipment Corporation, and by the Santa Fe Institute, Thinking Machines Corp., IBM, and Hughes Aircraft.

This work was conducted while at: Santa Fe Institute, 1660 Old Pecos Trail, Suite A, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, USA, ray@santafe.edu; School of Life & Health Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716, USA, ray@udel.edu; Omar Dengo Foundation, Apartado 1032-2050, San José, Costa Rica, tray@rad.fod.ac.cr

February 3, 1994

Ray, T. S. 1994. Evolution, complexity, entropy, and artificial reality. Physica D 75: 239-263.

Abstract:

• INTRODUCTION
• METHODS
  • Four Artificial Worlds
  • Evolution and Entropy
• RESULTS
  • Evolutionary Patterns in Four Different Worlds
  • Complex Structures
  • Evolution and Entropy
• DISCUSSION
  • Evolutionary Patterns in Four Different Worlds
  • Complex Structures
  • Evolution and Entropy
• References
• APPENDIX A: Getting the Tierra System
• APPENDIX B
  • Instruction Set #1
  • Instruction Set #2
  • Instruction Set #3
  • Instruction Set #4
• APPENDIX C
• APPENDIX D
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