A procedure for testing for Tokyo Type 1 Open-Ended Evolution

A procedure for testing for Tokyo Type 1 Open-Ended Evolution

Alastair Channon
School of Computing and Mathematics
Keele University
a.d.channon@keele.ac.uk

While there are a range of opinions about what underlying mechanisms may be necessary or sufficient for a system to exhibit Open-Ended Evolution (OEE), there is something close to a consensus about the observable behavioral hallmarks of OEE. The report from the first workshop on OEE summarized these in the York categories of OEE (Taylor et al., 2016; Packard et al., 2019):

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