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Hiroki Sayama

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What I do not understand, I can still create. -- unknown アメリカで大学教員やっています．いつもヘンなことばかり考えています．意識低い系．

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 19h

And this is how #ALIFE2025 ends! See you next year in Waterloo, Canada for #ALIFE2026!

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 15h

Our (in the making) paper combining morphogenetic fields and neural cellular cellular automata with @miltonllera.bsky.social, Eleni Nisioti & @risi.bsky.social got a little award at @alife2025.bsky.social #ALife2025 💮✨

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Alyssa M Adams @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social · 14h

💐🌺🌷From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for a wonderful conference. You all make it amazing— each and everyone one of you. I am so lucky to have met you 🌸✨🩷 #alife2025 #alife

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 21h

Still alive in Japan

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 22h

Sadly, I have to leave from #ALIFE2025 now
It has been absolutely inspiring several days here in Kyoto
Many many many many thanks to the organizers!!

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 23h

#ALIFE2025 final keynote Anna Ciaunica discusses the importance of bodies and embodiment in understanding life and mind

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 23h

From the Physical ALife session
#ALIFE2025

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 1d

Final day of #ALIFE2025
I will be busy chairing the Physical ALife session

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 1d

Now the #ALIFE2025 keynote panel on the field's unsolved problems

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Lloyd argues the need for pluralistic ways to define and use "AI"
#ALIFE2025

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 1d

Another talk by Jeremy Pitt
What do people feel when they and ALife are in conflict in a cooperation game?
#ALIFE2025

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 1d

Now in #ALIFE2025 ALife in Org satellite
Jeremy Pitt argues the use of human-AI co-production to make institutions more open-ended and more adaptive

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 1d

Now #ALIFE2025 keynote panel on open-endedness and plurality, by Ken Stanley, David Ha, Audrey Tang and Mizuki Oka

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 1d

Our keynote speaker today is Blaise Agüera y Arcas, who presented his results on in-silico abiogenesis using a primitive programming language, showing the emergence of self-replicator programs follow a well-defined phase transition.

#ALIFE2025

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 1d

#ALIFE2025 Day 4 keynote Blaise Agüera y Arcas shows a live demo of his famous Brainfuck experiment (which looks very much like the Matrix)

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 2d

Now, the next talk immediately following ASAL already extends it to ASAL++ by dynamically generating next prompts using past simulation history!
#ALIFE2025

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 2d

And now Akarsh Kumar presents the ASAL work!!
#ALIFE2025

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 2d

Dominik Woiwode designs and builds rotation-invariant hardware modules for NCA
(Each module costs just 10 euros!)
#ALIFE2025

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 2d

#ALIFE2025 Day 4
Cellular Automata 2 session
James Stovold shows including an pattern identity state makes NCA's behavior more robust and consistent when two nearby patterns overlap

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 2d

Grant rejected

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#ALIFE2025 Day 3 keynote Chris Kempes discusses the possibility of universal laws of life

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 2d

Are there universal laws of life? Our keynote speaker today at #ALIFE2025 is Chris Kempes, who dedicated his talk to the question above. He mainly focused on the constraints that life needs to emerge, showing that there are general scaling laws between multiple biological traits.