Using a glider in the Game of Life cellular automaton as a toy model of minimal persistent individuals, this article explores how questions regarding the origin of life might be approached from the perspective of autopoiesis. Specifically, I examine how the density of gliders evolves over time from random initial conditions and then develop a statistical mechanics of gliders that explains this time evolution in terms of the processes of glider creation, persistence, and destruction that underlie it.

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自创生起源研究

使用生命游戏细胞自动机中的滑翔机作为最小持久个体的玩具模型，本文探讨了如何从自创生的角度解决有关生命起源的问题。具体来说，我研究了滑翔机的密度是如何从随机初始条件随时间演变的，然后开发了一种滑翔机的统计力学，从作为其基础的滑翔机创建、持续和破坏过程来解释这种时间演变。