{"id":"6660892d-1df3-4b32-ac2b-cbb2e162d353","kind":"sos","name":"Artificial life from random programs","slug":"artifitial-life-from-random-programs","url":"https://api.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/event/6660892d-1df3-4b32-ac2b-cbb2e162d353/?format=json","track":null,"assembly":"sos","room":"d477e5d4-4700-4317-896c-ca39c0720eed","location":null,"language":"en","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.","schedule_start":"2025-12-30T12:00:00+01:00","schedule_duration":"00:50:00","schedule_end":"2025-12-30T12:50:00+01:00"}