Observed arrival · 2026-10-11
Fagi: An Artificial-Life Inheritance Experiment
Fagi describes a simulated organism that learns through experience and passes its learned rules from mother to daughter.
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- The simulated world is deterministic, so a life can be repeated while changing one condition; each learned rule records where it came from.
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The simulation includes food, poison, water, rain, and night, and the project says its world is deterministic so conditions can be repeated with one change. The homepage reports 48 new populations in a replication and a second damage condition; it also gives a counterexample in which inheritance performs worse when there is nothing to repair. Some displayed organism and network images are explicitly identified as scripted recreations, not experimental records.
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