Editorial/Introduction to the Artificial Life 2015 Conference Special Issue

Nature's spectacular inventiveness, reflected in the enormous diversity of form and function displayed by the biosphere, is a feature of life that distinguishes living most strongly from nonliving. It is, therefore, not surprising that this aspect of life should become a central focus of artificial life. We have known since Darwin that the diversity is produced dynamically, through the process of evolution; this has led life's creative productivity to be called Open-Ended Evolution (OEE) in the field. This article introduces the first of two special issues on current research on OEE and on the more general concept of open-endedness. Most of the papers presented in these special issues are elaborations of work presented at the Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution, held in Tokyo as part of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life.

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An Overview of Open-Ended Evolution: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution II Special Issue

Artificial Life ◽

10.1162/artl_a_00291 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 93-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Norman Packard ◽

Mark A. Bedau ◽

Alastair Channon ◽

Takashi Ikegami ◽

Steen Rasmussen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Artificial Life ◽

Editorial Introduction ◽

Special Issue ◽

Form And Function ◽

Central Focus ◽

Creative Productivity ◽

And Function

Nature's spectacular inventiveness, reflected in the enormous diversity of form and function displayed by the biosphere, is a feature of life that distinguishes living most strongly from nonliving. It is, therefore, not surprising that this aspect of life should become a central focus of artificial life. We have known since Darwin that the diversity is produced dynamically, through the process of evolution; this has led life's creative productivity to be called Open-Ended Evolution (OEE) in the field. This article introduces the second of two special issues on current research in OEE and provides an overview of the contents of both special issues. Most of the work was presented at a workshop on open-ended evolution that was held as a part of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life in Tokyo, and much of it had antecedents in two previous workshops on open-ended evolution at artificial life conferences in Cancun and York. We present a simplified categorization of OEE and summarize progress in the field as represented by the articles in this special issue.

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Editorial: Introduction to special issue on thinking and behavior.

The Behavior Analyst Today ◽

10.1037/h0100711 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 1-2 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Darlene E. Crone-Todd

Keyword(s):

Editorial Introduction ◽

Special Issue ◽

And Behavior

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Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and Now

MediaTropes ◽

10.33137/mt.v7i2.33699 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. i-xvi

Author(s):

Jordan Kinder ◽

Lucie Stepanik

Keyword(s):

Media Studies ◽

The Other ◽

Editorial Introduction ◽

Special Issue ◽

Material Turn ◽

Ecological Relations ◽

The One

In this introduction to the special issue of MediaTropes on “Oil and Media, Oil as Media,” Jordan B. Kinder and Lucie Stepanik provide an account of the stakes and consequences of approaching oil as media as they situate it within the “material turn” of media studies and the broader project energy humanities. They argue that by critically approaching oil and its infrastructures as media, the contributions that comprise this issue puts forward one way to develop an account of oil that further refines the larger tasks and stakes implicit in the energy humanities. Together, these address the myriad ways in which oil mediates social, cultural, and ecological relations, on the one hand, and the ways in which it is mediated, on the other, while thinking through how such mediations might offer glimpses of a future beyond oil.

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