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"name": "Artificial life from random programs",
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"description": "Self-replicating programs spontaneously emerge from randomly initialized code in simple programming languages like Brainfuck, Forth, and assembly, without any designed replication mechanisms or fitness functions. Through self-modification and random interactions alone, these systems transition from \"pre-life\" chaos to \"life\" dynamics where replicators compete, evolve, and develop increasingly complex behaviors, offering new insights into how life itself might originate on any computational substrate.",
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