What is it about?
We prove that apparent properties of biological evolution may be deeply linked to undecidability results similar to the ones found in mathematical logic demonstrated by Gödel and also found in computation as demonstrated by Turing.
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Why is it important?
This work sheds light on the possible type of mechanisms and limitations of biological evolution both intrinsically and from the observer's perspective.
Perspectives
It is key to understand the mechanisms and limitations to understand and predict the possibilities of organisms to undergo and also understand their own and other's evolutionary paths. This understanding may also help us to steer life and to reproduce and simulate processes in frameworks of artificial evolution that can lead to similar complexity to that found in nature.
Hector Zenil
Karolinska Institutet
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This page is a summary of: Undecidability and Irreducibility Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution and Emergence, Artificial Life, January 2018, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00254.
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