Cellular Automata Flashcards
(21 cards)
Vitalism describes living organisms as being fundamentally different from non-living organisms as…
Containing some non-physical element or some ‘animate governing principles’
Reductionism describes living organisms as being fundamentally different from non-living organisms as…
Being capable of being explained in terms of even smaller entities
Emergentism describes living organisms as being fundamentally different from non-living organisms as…
Not being able to be fully described in terms of the properties of the constituents
Biology is considered reductionist, as it explains behaviour…
In terms of smaller entities in a form of hierarchy
Artificial life is the study of…
Synthetic systems that exhibit behaviours characteristic of natural living systems
Wetware/synthetic biology is the study of artificial life using…
Bits from biology such as DNA or RNA to build new organisms
Hardware is the study of artificial life using…
Autonomous and collective robotics
Software is the study of artificial life by…
Simulating biological systems at a software level
The ‘weak’ philosophy of artificial life studies states that…
Computer simulations are just simulations and nothing more
The ‘strong’ philosophy of artificial life studies states that…
Life is not restricted just to carbon-based chemical processes
An automaton consists of…
A grid of cells, each of which can be in a finite number of states
Cells in an automaton interact via their…
Neighbourhoods
An automaton can be described in […]-dimensions.
Any-dimensions! They are not restricted by dimensionality
The state of an automaton changes with each…
Timestep
At each timestep, cells are modified [sequentially/in parallel] according to some…
In parallel, according to some state transition rules
State transition rules change the state of a cell in an automata based on…
The state of that cell’s neighbours/neighbourhood
Localism is a property of cellular automatons which states that…
States are updated based on the neighbourhood and only that
Parallelism is a property of cellular automatons which states that…
The state of each cell is updated in parallel
Homogeneity is a property of cellular automatons which states that…
The same set of rules are applied across every cell in the automaton
Cellular automata are used most commonly for… (pick one)
Infection modelling, forest fire spread, procedural generation in video games
Conway’s Game of Life states that if a cell is off and three of its neighbours are on, […], while if a cell is on and it has two or three active neighbours, […].
It becomes on in the next timestep, otherwise it remains off
It remains on, otherwise it becomes off in the next timestep
