Questions for the Open-Ended Evolution Community: Reflections from the 2021 Cross Labs Innovation Science Workshop
Kevin Frans[1,2]
, L. B. Soros[2]
and Olaf Witkowski[2,3,4]
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
[2]Cross Labs, Cross Compass Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
[3]Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
[4]College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
info@crosslabs.org
Open-ended evolution (OEE) research is exciting because it encompasses a unifying concept that points to fundamental questions in a wide range of fields. Concretely, though, what do researchers and practitioners want to get out of OEE? What can be tried that hasn’t been tried already? What open questions do we want to see answered first?