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A Saucerful of Secrets: Open-Ended Organizational Closure in the Game of Life
Paper summary
Proposes a connection between organizational closure and open-endedness using multidimensional mappings. A Game of Life toy analysis illustrates the proposed concept of open-ended organizational closure, while the authors identify limits of that demonstration.
Relevance to the project
Offers concepts for identifying mutually sustaining processes and changing organization in simulated patterns. Could inform causal measurements in the properties catalog.
A conceptual toy demonstration is not a settled definition of life.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pdf-https-users-sussex-ac-uk-philh-pubs-saucerful-of-secrets-alife24-final-pdf
- Archived version
- Direct PDF cited in project notes; publication status needs source-specific inspection
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pdf-https-users-sussex-ac-uk-philh-pubs-saucerful-of-secrets-alife24-final-pdf/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.