Emergent Bioanalogous Properties of Blockchain-based Distributed Systems

【Author】 Abramov, Oleg; Bebell, Kirstin L.; Mojzsis, Stephen J.

【Source】ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

【影响因子】1.120

【Abstract】We apply a novel definition of biological systems to a series of reproducible observations on a blockchain-based distributed virtual machine (dVM). We find that such blockchain-based systems display a number of bioanalogous properties, such as response to the environment, growth and change, replication, and homeostasis, that fit some definitions of life. We further present a conceptual model for a simple self-sustaining, self-organizing, self-regulating distributed 'organism' as an operationally closed system that would fulfill all basic definitions and criteria for life, and describe developing technologies, particularly artificial neural network (ANN) based artificial intelligence (AI), that would enable it in the near future. Notably, such systems would have a number of specific advantages over biological life, such as the ability to pass acquired traits to offspring, significantly improved speed, accuracy, and redundancy of their genetic carrier, and potentially unlimited lifespans. Public blockchain-based dVMs provide an uncontained environment for the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the capability to evolve by self-direction.

【Keywords】Artificial life; Dynamical systems; Information theory; Neural networks; Non-equilibrium thermodynamics; Self-organization

【发表时间】2021 JUN

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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