Erwan Plantec
@eplantec.bsky.social
PhD candidate @real.itu.dk
Artificial Life | Complex Systems | Neural Networks
Artificial Life | Complex Systems | Neural Networks
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The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens.
#ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
#ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens.
#ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
#ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
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We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February.
We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!
Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!
Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February.
We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!
Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!
Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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How do ant colonies perform computations? What kind of dynamical state allows them to do it? It has already been 30 years since my colleague, Octavio Miramontes, and I suggested that they, as liquid neural networks, might exploit critical states. Check: hal.elte.hu/~vicsek/down...
July 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
How do ant colonies perform computations? What kind of dynamical state allows them to do it? It has already been 30 years since my colleague, Octavio Miramontes, and I suggested that they, as liquid neural networks, might exploit critical states. Check: hal.elte.hu/~vicsek/down...
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I don't know why, I just love these cell simulations :)
Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾
An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
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An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
A 🧵
June 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I don't know why, I just love these cell simulations :)
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Extended Flow-Lenia paper is out in the ALife journal, with more experiments and insights! See 🧵 from 1st-author
@eplantec.bsky.social for a summary.
For a full overview of our research in Artificial Life, here is a talk I gave at the Demeco workshop at EPFL
:
youtube.com/watch?v=YYFr...
@eplantec.bsky.social for a summary.
For a full overview of our research in Artificial Life, here is a talk I gave at the Demeco workshop at EPFL
:
youtube.com/watch?v=YYFr...
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Extended Flow-Lenia paper is out in the ALife journal, with more experiments and insights! See 🧵 from 1st-author
@eplantec.bsky.social for a summary.
For a full overview of our research in Artificial Life, here is a talk I gave at the Demeco workshop at EPFL
:
youtube.com/watch?v=YYFr...
@eplantec.bsky.social for a summary.
For a full overview of our research in Artificial Life, here is a talk I gave at the Demeco workshop at EPFL
:
youtube.com/watch?v=YYFr...
Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾
An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
A 🧵
An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
A 🧵
June 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾
An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
A 🧵
An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
A 🧵
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New video on the recently discovered Mosura is up on my channel!
#paleoart #mosura #3DAnimation #SciArt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynHJ...
#paleoart #mosura #3DAnimation #SciArt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynHJ...
May 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New video on the recently discovered Mosura is up on my channel!
#paleoart #mosura #3DAnimation #SciArt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynHJ...
#paleoart #mosura #3DAnimation #SciArt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynHJ...
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Two types of brains have emerged in nature: solid (ours) and liquid (ant colonies, immune system). What can be computed by liquid brains? How complex are they? Check our paper on the statistical physics of liquid brains @jordipinero.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
May 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Two types of brains have emerged in nature: solid (ours) and liquid (ant colonies, immune system). What can be computed by liquid brains? How complex are they? Check our paper on the statistical physics of liquid brains @jordipinero.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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How can biological systems anticipate future events? In our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social, we show how a simple genetic circuit can predict future trends through a simple (and perhaps widespread) mechanism @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
How can biological systems anticipate future events? In our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social, we show how a simple genetic circuit can predict future trends through a simple (and perhaps widespread) mechanism @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ever wonder what a neural network would look like in a novel organism w/o selection for specific structure and function? New #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and transcriptomic analysis of a new kind of Xenobot with a nervous system:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Ever wonder what a neural network would look like in a novel organism w/o selection for specific structure and function? New #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and transcriptomic analysis of a new kind of Xenobot with a nervous system:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠
An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.
Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.
Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s)
Important dates:
Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025
Author Notification: TBA
sites.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠
An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.
Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.
Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
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Today #complexitycat kicks off its Interview column featuring one of the most iconic researchers in #ArtificialLife: @hirokisayama.bsky.social.
What are the most important challenges for this field? Can we really achieve open-ended evolution? This and more here.🐈⬛👇
amahury.github.io/posts/interv...
What are the most important challenges for this field? Can we really achieve open-ended evolution? This and more here.🐈⬛👇
amahury.github.io/posts/interv...
The Art of Making Things Evolve
For decades Hiroki Sayama has sought to achieve what a century ago would have been mere science fiction—creating life on our computers.
amahury.github.io
April 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today #complexitycat kicks off its Interview column featuring one of the most iconic researchers in #ArtificialLife: @hirokisayama.bsky.social.
What are the most important challenges for this field? Can we really achieve open-ended evolution? This and more here.🐈⬛👇
amahury.github.io/posts/interv...
What are the most important challenges for this field? Can we really achieve open-ended evolution? This and more here.🐈⬛👇
amahury.github.io/posts/interv...
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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
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Today's #robotics lecture: selective attention.
Now that I've posted this, I should get back to what I was working on before...
...if only I could remember what that was.
youtu.be/BKzOfR9zWCc
Now that I've posted this, I should get back to what I was working on before...
...if only I could remember what that was.
youtu.be/BKzOfR9zWCc
2025 Evolutionary robotics course. Lecture 14. Active Categorical Perception.
YouTube video by Josh Bongard
youtu.be
February 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Today's #robotics lecture: selective attention.
Now that I've posted this, I should get back to what I was working on before...
...if only I could remember what that was.
youtu.be/BKzOfR9zWCc
Now that I've posted this, I should get back to what I was working on before...
...if only I could remember what that was.
youtu.be/BKzOfR9zWCc
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Le 7 janvier, Donald Trump avait estimé que les pays membres de l’OTAN devraient désormais consacrer à leur défense non plus 2 % mais 5 % de leur produit intérieur brut (PIB). ↓
February 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Le 7 janvier, Donald Trump avait estimé que les pays membres de l’OTAN devraient désormais consacrer à leur défense non plus 2 % mais 5 % de leur produit intérieur brut (PIB). ↓
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2025 Evolutionary robotics course. Lecture 13. Minimal cognition continued.
YouTube video by Josh Bongard
youtu.be
February 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the Trump administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked.
https://go.nature.com/4iboVwb
https://go.nature.com/4iboVwb
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
Nature - The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked.
go.nature.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the Trump administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked.
https://go.nature.com/4iboVwb
https://go.nature.com/4iboVwb
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How do parasites expand the genomic complexity of life? In our new paper on "Turing parasites" with Luis Seoane
@brigan.bsky.social shows how a computational model of host-parasite coevolution displays open-ended evolution
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
@brigan.bsky.social shows how a computational model of host-parasite coevolution displays open-ended evolution
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
February 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
How do parasites expand the genomic complexity of life? In our new paper on "Turing parasites" with Luis Seoane
@brigan.bsky.social shows how a computational model of host-parasite coevolution displays open-ended evolution
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
@brigan.bsky.social shows how a computational model of host-parasite coevolution displays open-ended evolution
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
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Planetary Life, a game about planet, life and evolution simulation!
✅ Procedural planets 🌍
✅ Climate simulation ⛈️
✅ Global disasters 🌋☄️
✅ Create and evolve creatures 🐟🦎🐞
✅ Create and evolve plants 🌱🌴🌲
⬜ Cells
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
✅ Procedural planets 🌍
✅ Climate simulation ⛈️
✅ Global disasters 🌋☄️
✅ Create and evolve creatures 🐟🦎🐞
✅ Create and evolve plants 🌱🌴🌲
⬜ Cells
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
October 26, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Planetary Life, a game about planet, life and evolution simulation!
✅ Procedural planets 🌍
✅ Climate simulation ⛈️
✅ Global disasters 🌋☄️
✅ Create and evolve creatures 🐟🦎🐞
✅ Create and evolve plants 🌱🌴🌲
⬜ Cells
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
✅ Procedural planets 🌍
✅ Climate simulation ⛈️
✅ Global disasters 🌋☄️
✅ Create and evolve creatures 🐟🦎🐞
✅ Create and evolve plants 🌱🌴🌲
⬜ Cells
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
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New paper w/ Luke Strgar
sites.google.com/view/co-desi...
...in a nutshell:
⛰️ differentiable physics
🏋️ morphological pretraining
🧠 a universal controller
🧬 zero shot evolution
💡 adaptive phototaxis
☠️ diversity collapse
🔧 generational finetuning
🦘 few shot evolution
sites.google.com/view/co-desi...
...in a nutshell:
⛰️ differentiable physics
🏋️ morphological pretraining
🧠 a universal controller
🧬 zero shot evolution
💡 adaptive phototaxis
☠️ diversity collapse
🔧 generational finetuning
🦘 few shot evolution
February 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
New paper w/ Luke Strgar
sites.google.com/view/co-desi...
...in a nutshell:
⛰️ differentiable physics
🏋️ morphological pretraining
🧠 a universal controller
🧬 zero shot evolution
💡 adaptive phototaxis
☠️ diversity collapse
🔧 generational finetuning
🦘 few shot evolution
sites.google.com/view/co-desi...
...in a nutshell:
⛰️ differentiable physics
🏋️ morphological pretraining
🧠 a universal controller
🧬 zero shot evolution
💡 adaptive phototaxis
☠️ diversity collapse
🔧 generational finetuning
🦘 few shot evolution
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2025 Evolutionary robotics course. Lecture 10. The Sussex gantry robot.
YouTube video by Josh Bongard
youtu.be
February 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.cell.com/trends/genet... - really delighted to see this in print in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! 😊
The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism
How does the genome encode the form of the organism? What is the nature of this genomic
code? Inspired by recent work in machine learning and neuroscience, we propose that
the genome encodes a generat...
www.cell.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.cell.com/trends/genet... - really delighted to see this in print in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! 😊
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Join us for the Evolving Self-Organisation workshop at #GECCO this year! Great chance to submit your favourite ideas concerning self-organisation processes and evolution, and how they interact.
Relevant for Alifers #ALife and anyone interested in #evolution, #self-organisation, and #ComplexSystems.
Relevant for Alifers #ALife and anyone interested in #evolution, #self-organisation, and #ComplexSystems.
We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025!
Submission deadline: March 26, 2025
More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io
Submission deadline: March 26, 2025
More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io
February 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join us for the Evolving Self-Organisation workshop at #GECCO this year! Great chance to submit your favourite ideas concerning self-organisation processes and evolution, and how they interact.
Relevant for Alifers #ALife and anyone interested in #evolution, #self-organisation, and #ComplexSystems.
Relevant for Alifers #ALife and anyone interested in #evolution, #self-organisation, and #ComplexSystems.
Reposted by Erwan Plantec
We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025!
Submission deadline: March 26, 2025
More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io
Submission deadline: March 26, 2025
More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io
February 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025!
Submission deadline: March 26, 2025
More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io
Submission deadline: March 26, 2025
More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io