Emergent Structures noisy channel message passing with an NCA
Sample of robust generations
- What is life?
- I know it when I see it
- How does life look like?
- From the point of view of Information Theory
- Some machinery that preserves information in a noisy environment
- We start with a random message/dna
- We put it as a seed in the initial NCA grid state
- Run the NCA
- Apply differentiable noise (gaussian/translation/rotation/structured noise, etc)
- Decode the message
- Supervise on the decoded message and the initial message.
Intuition
The NCA has to learn to generate morphologies that are robust to the noise. The DNA information has to be encoded in the form and robust to perturbations.
Features of life the system exhibits
- Preserves low-entropic information
- Homeostasis (stable under prolonged/repeated noise additions)
Further Work
- Respond to stimuli
- Reproduction
- Adaption (Perturbations in the noise pattern)
- Multi-species
- Get published in Nature
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