Nature's spectacular inventiveness, reflected in the enormous diversity of form and function displayed by the biosphere, is a feature of life that distinguishes living most strongly from nonliving. It is, therefore, not surprising that this aspect of life should become a central focus of artificial life. We have known since Darwin that the diversity is produced dynamically, through the process of evolution; this has led life's creative productivity to be called Open-Ended Evolution (OEE) in the field. This article introduces the second of two special issues on current research in OEE and provides an overview of the contents of both special issues. Most of the work was presented at a workshop on open-ended evolution that was held as a part of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life in Tokyo, and much of it had antecedents in two previous workshops on open-ended evolution at artificial life conferences in Cancun and York. We present a simplified categorization of OEE and summarize progress in the field as represented by the articles in this special issue.
翻译:大自然的惊人创造性体现在生物圈所展示的形态和功能的巨大多样性上,这是生命的一个特征,它使生活与非生物区别最大。因此,生命的这一方面应成为人造生活的中心焦点并不奇怪。自达尔文以来,我们就知道,多样性是通过进化过程而动态地产生的;这导致生命的创造性生产力在实地被称为不限名额的进化(OEE),这篇文章介绍了关于欧洲教育组织当前研究的两个特殊问题的第二个问题,并概述了这两个特殊问题的内容。大部分工作是在作为2018年东京人文生活会议一部分而举行的不限成员名额的进化问题研讨会上介绍的,大部分在此前在坎昆和纽约的人文生活会议上举办的关于开放进化的两个讲习班上都有先例。我们介绍了欧洲教育组织简化的分类,并总结了这一特殊问题各条款所代表的该领域的进展。