Electronic Life Makes Evolving Art. On Sept 4, critterdrug (http://arbornet.org/~flamoot/telepathic-critterdrug.html), the a-life lab for the twenty-teens, was updated to make generating a species almost trivial. A new video shows semi-random artificial animals gaining neurons and synapses as they compete to draw a gradient on an animated shared canvas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibGF8Cly2Gc) which constitutes 1024 frames spread through time. The canvas is a 10-megabyte digital background for the lossy neural nets that populate the world. What you get are cellular automata run by psychic neural nets that are bound by the rules of a survival contest with physics. Features implementations of telepathy, Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields and five types of drugs. The key assignments have changed since critterding (http://critterding.sourceforge.net/); check the changelog on the web page for the new ones. Happy hacking!"
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