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Self-Replicating Programs Emerge from Random Noise Self-Replicating Programs Emerge from Random Noise
16 min read Keywords:  artificial life, self-replication, emergence, turing completeness, computational biology

Turing completeness is a shallow pit you fall into. Self-replication is an even shallower one. A recent paper shows that self-replicating programs spontaneously emerge from soups of random code, no design required.