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Re:SproutLife – Evolving version of Conway’s Game of Life by tkt on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:04PM (#27600327)
As it seems like you’re seeing, what evolves depends a lot on what you’re selecting for and the environment they’re ‘growing’ in. This is another paper with more details. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123229/pdf/978... My favorite stories are the ones where the organisms evolved to be able to detect when they were in the test environment and only performed the high-cost, selected-for behavior there.
Re:SproutLife – Evolving version of Conway’s Game of Life by tkt on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:09PM (#27600350)
If you haven’t run across it yet, Karl Sims’ virtual creatures are also really fascinating. https://www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html And anything by Melanie Mitchell. Her book “An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms” is great.