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Redrawing the Boundary between Organism and Environment
  
  Tim Taylor
2004

Abstract
In this position paper, I argue that a fruitful, and as yet largely unexplored, avenue for artificial life research lies in modelling organisms (specifically, phenotypes) and environment as a single dynamical system. From this perspective, the origin and evolution of life is the progressive control of the dynamical system at a local level by constraints which are represented on an organism’s genome. Such an approach shifts the focus of artificial life models away from the design of individuals, towards the interaction of an individual with its dynamic environment. It also blurs the boundary between organism and environment; the most important modelling distinction is no longer between an organism’s body and its external environment, but rather between the genome (which is treated as an essentially symbolic structure) and phenotype-plus-environment combined. An evolutionary cellular automata system, called EvoCA, is introduced as a tool to explore these ideas. To demonstrate how this approach differs from traditional studies, two example applications of EvoCA are presented. One concerns sensor and effector evolution; the other concerns the origin of life, and in particular the evolution of genome-regulated self-stabilising dynamics. Advantages of the new approach are summarised, and some potential criticisms are considered. The paper concludes with a discussion of some implications of this shift in perspective.

 
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<span id="taylor2004redrawing">Taylor, T. (2004). Redrawing the Boundary between Organism and Environment. In J. Pollack, M. A. Bedau, P. Husbands, R. A. Watson, &amp; T. Ikegami (Eds.), <i>Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems</i> (pp. 268–273). https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/1429.003.0045</span>

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@inproceedings{taylor2004redrawing,
  author = {Taylor, Tim},
  title = {Redrawing the Boundary between Organism and Environment},
  booktitle = {Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems},
  year = {2004},
  editor = {Pollack, Jordan and Bedau, Mark A. and Husbands, Phil and Watson, Richard A. and Ikegami, Takashi},
  pages = {268-273},
  address = {Cambridge, MA},
  publisher = {{MIT} Press},
  doi = {10.7551/mitpress/1429.003.0045},
  category = {conference},
  keywords = {evoca, oee, meaning, agency}
}

   
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<div class="overflow-scroll"><span id="taylor2009creative">Taylor, T. (2009). <b>A Creative Dance: Symbols, Action and the Bringing Forth of Meaning</b>. In M. Boden, M. D’Inverno, &amp; J. McCormack (Eds.), <i>Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach</i>. Retrieved from http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2009/2207</span></div>

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  title = {A Creative Dance: Symbols, Action and the Bringing Forth of Meaning},
  booktitle = {Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach},
  year = {2009},
  editor = {Boden, Margaret and D'{I}nverno, Mark and Mc{C}ormack, Jon},
  number = {09291},
  series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings},
  issn = {1862-4405},
  publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f\"{u}r Informatik, Germany},
  address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
  url = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2009/2207},
  category = {workshop},
  keywords = {meaning}
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  title = {Evolving Interaction in Artificial Systems: An historical overview and future directions},
  booktitle = {Abstracts from the Evolvability and Interaction Symposium, held at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, in October 2003},
  publisher = {University of Hertfordshire Computer Science Technical Report No.~393},
  year = {2003},
  month = oct,
  editor = {McOwan, Peter and Dautenhahn, Kerstin and Nehaniv, Chrystopher L.},
  category = {workshop},
  keywords = {evoca, history, oee}
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  title = {Sensor Evolution in Artificial Systems: Towards a more appropriate model of the relationship between organism and environment},
  booktitle = {Abstracts from the Evolvability and Sensor Evolution Symposium, held at University of Birmingham, UK, in April 2003},
  publisher = {University of Hertfordshire Computer Science Technical Report No.~384},
  year = {2003},
  month = apr,
  editor = {Miller, Julian F. and Polani, Daniel and Nehaniv, Chrystopher L.},
  category = {workshop},
  keywords = {evoca, meaning}
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  title = {An Alternative Approach to the Synthesis of Life},
  howpublished = {Poster presented at the 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE 8), Sydney, Australia},
  month = dec,
  year = {2002},
  category = {poster},
  keywords = {evoca, meaning}
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  title = {The Control of Dynamical Systems by Evolved Constraints: A New Perspective on Modelling Life},
  institution = {University of Edinburgh},
  year = {2002},
  type = {Informatics Research Report},
  number = {EDI-INF-RR-0148},
  note = {A poster based upon this work entitled "An Alternative Approach to the Synthesis of Life" was presented at the 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE 8), Sydney, Australia, December 2002},
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  keywords = {evoca, agency}
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  author = {Taylor, Tim},
  title = {Creativity in Evolution: Individuals, Interactions and Environments},
  booktitle = {Creative Evolutionary Systems},
  editor = {Bentley, Peter J and Corne, David W},
  chapter = {1},
  pages = {79--108},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year = {2001},
  doi = {10.1016/b978-155860673-9/50037-9},
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  keywords = {creativity, oee}
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  title = {Some Representational and Ecological Aspects of Evolvability},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Evolvability Workshop at the the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Artificial Life 7)},
  year = {2000},
  editor = {Nehaniv, Chrystopher L.},
  pages = {41-44},
  url = {http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~comqcln/al7ev/cnts.html},
  month = aug,
  category = {workshop},
  keywords = {selfrep, oee}
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  author = {Taylor, Timothy John},
  title = {From Artificial Evolution to Artificial Life},
  school = {School of Informatics, College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh},
  year = {1999},
  uri = {http://hdl.handle.net/1842/361},
  category = {dissertation},
  keywords = {selfrep, oee, cosmos}
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  title = {Nidus Design Document},
  institution = {Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh},
  year = {1998},
  type = {Departmental Working Paper},
  number = {269},
  month = jun,
  category = {techreport},
  keywords = {oee}
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