Stanley, Kenneth O., and L. B. Soros. “The role of subjectivity in the evaluation of open-endedness.” In Presentation delivered in OEE2: The Second Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution, at ALIFE 2016 . 2016.
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Given the interest in artificial life in achieving open-ended dynamics it is important to establish what open-endedness means. Yet the definition of open-endedness has proven surprisingly difficult to pin down. This paper examines whether one reason for this difficulty may be that open-endedness is in part a subjective notion. That is, open-endedness may be in the eye of the beholder. Grappling with this question is ultimately important for the field so it can set its expectations realistically