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The Creation of Novelty in Artificial Chemistries

Dominique Groß¹ and Barry McMullin^2
1University of Bergen, Senter for Vitskapsteori, 5007 - Bergen, Norway
Dominique.Gross@svt.uib.no
²Dublin City University, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin 9, Ireland
mcmullin@eeng.dcu.ie

Abstract:

We observe that the world surrounding us perpetually creates novelty. The question we examine in this article is whether it is possible to build computer models that are similarly creative. The discussion focuses specifically on artificial chemistries.