Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
1997-08-06
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
TeX source, 15 p., please email hwael or stephens for figures
Scientific paper
In genetic systems there is a non-trivial interface between the sequence of symbols which constitutes the chromosome, or ``genotype'', and the products which this sequence encodes --- the ``phenotype''. This interface can be thought of as a ``computer''. In this case the chromosome is viewed as an algorithm and the phenotype as the result of the computation. In general only a small fraction of all possible sequences of symbols makes any sense for a given computer. The difficulty of finding meaningful algorithms by random mutation is known as the brittleness problem. In this paper we show that mutation and crossover favour the emergence of an algorithmic language which facilitates the production of meaningful sequences following random mutations of the genotype. We base our conclusions on an analysis of the population dynamics of a variant of Kitano's neurogenetic model wherein the chromosome encodes the rules for cellular division and the phenotype is a 16-cell organism interpreted as a connectivity matrix for a feedforward neural network. We show that an algorithmic language emerges, describe this language in extenso, and show how it helps to solve the brittleness problem.
Angeles O.
Stephens Carnella
Waelbroeck Henri
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