Novel Properties Generated by Interacting Computational Systems
Fabio Boschetti
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia
and
School of Earth and Environment
The University of Western Australia
John Symons
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas 79968, USA
jsymons@utep.edu
Abstract
After giving definitions for novelty and causality for computational systems, we describe a simple computational system that is able to produce genuine novelty. We explain how novelty can arise in systems of simple interacting components and describe what it would mean for such emergent properties to have causal powers.
