[ExI] auto-catalytic sets
Anders Sandberg
anders at aleph.se
Mon May 14 21:53:45 UTC 2012
The original paper is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0584
Nice to see that Kaufmann has not given up, but rather turned to
quantitative analysis. Cool that the sets are not just the giant component.
What I wonder about this model is the waste set. Autocatalytic sets that
use food sets will also produce waste chemicals that are not used by it
and are not autocatalytic in themselves (otherwise they would be in the
maxRAF). There needs to be a process that turns some of the waste set
into the food set, otherwise the process will grind to a halt.
--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University
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