Thoughts on an Unified Framework for Artificial Chemistries

TL;DR

This paper discusses a unified formal framework for Artificial Chemistries, focusing on capturing semantic and organizational aspects through information, computation, and communication abstractions, to better understand artificial life origins.

Contribution

It proposes a formalism integrating semantic and organizational information in Artificial Chemistries, unifying diverse approaches for classification and analysis.

Findings

Analysis of Shannon's Entropy and Algorithmic Information in ACs

Discussion of inductive and deductive framework approaches

Initial proposal of three high-level abstractions for ACs

Abstract

Artificial Chemistries (ACs) are symbolic chemical metaphors for the exploration of Artificial Life, with specific focus on the problem of biogenesis or the origin of life. This paper presents authors thoughts towards defining a unified framework to characterize and classify symbolic artificial chemistries by devising appropriate formalism to capture semantic and organizational information. We identify three basic high level abstractions in initial proposal for this framework viz., information, computation, and communication. We present an analysis of two important notions of information, namely, Shannon's Entropy and Algorithmic Information, and discuss inductive and deductive approaches for defining the framework.