great opening keynote by Hector Zenil at @alife2025.bsky.social 🇯🇵

the purpose of science (and ALife) is to make sense of patterns in the world

Ready for @alife2025.bsky.social 🇯🇵

Østfold University College is well represented with F. Reimers, C. Vibe, E. Guichard, and me.

Check out our 3 presentations at the Distributed Ciphers special session (EngramNCA, ARC-NCA & critical NCA) on Tue & poster session (RBNs for reservoir computing)!

I finally had the time to revise my website with updated descriptions of my research goals and lab activity: www.nichele.eu

Feedback is welcome 😄

PS. Is it clear enough that I *DO NOT* focus on artificial intelligence applications? 🧠

Detailed program of the Special Session "The Distributed Ciphers" @alife2025.bsky.social

Special session program also available here:
www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Distri...

The entire program of ALIFE 2025 is available on the conference website: 2025.alife.org/program

See you soon in Kyoto 🇯🇵

And here are the accepted contributions to the Special Session #TheDistributedCiphers at @alife2025.bsky.social:

Details: www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Distri...

See you in Kyoto 🇯🇵

We are happy to announce that @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social will give a keynote at our Distributed Ciphers Special Session at @alife2025.bsky.social Kyoto (Oct. 6-10) #ALIFE2025

Alyssa's talk:

⭐ What Fungi, Swarms, and Cellular Automata Are Teaching Us About Intelligence ⭐

🚀 New preprint!
ARC-NCA shows how Neural Cellular Automata —incl. memory-rich EngramNCA—crack tasks from the ARC-AGI benchmark, hitting GPT-4.5-level accuracy at a fraction of the cost. 🌱🤖
Web: etimush.github.io/ARC_NCA/
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.08778
#NeuroAI #AGI #CA #ALIFE

We introduce EngramNCA, a Neural Cellular Automaton (NCA) framework designed to investigate memory storage beyond traditional synaptic models.

Web preprint: etimush.github.io/EngramNCA/
Arxiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.11855

#NeuroAI #ArtificialLife #NCA #ComplexSystems