arxivcs.NE2026-07-01
BFF: Simple explanations for complex phenomena
Charlotte Knierim, Luca Versari, Robert Obryk, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Rif A. Saurous
The ''Computational Life'' paper (Agüera y Arcas et al., 2024) argues that paired interactions in a computational soup are an effective way to find self-replicators. In this work, aided by recent developments in self-replicator detection, we explore the alternate hypothesis that…