The proliferon has several means to create solutions. We plant a zygote which matures into a stem
process which then starts planting zygotes evolving into
transient processes. The length of a CA depends on cell production
and delivery rates,
Injury has four outcomes:
1. A solution
2. A bounded solution (strange attractor)
3. Chaotic oscillation
4. Death
Chaotic oscillators are dangerous and may kill the
proliferon. In order to protect itself it applies different strategies
to terminate chaos. Some were
depicted in previous experiments (v Injury
and repair, Injury and repair-1, Injury
and repair-2). The “change state” strategy serves for the same
purpose.
Innate memory
The basic solution set may be regarded as proliferon’s innate memory. The 25 * 46 solutions are its
self. At this stage of its evolutions all generated solutions
are copies of this basic set. All new solutions are continually compared
with the basic set and when one is injured the stem process identifies it as being
different and initiates a rescue strategy.
Specialty
For some tasks a three process proliferon may be adequate. Such a specialized proliferon is designed to solve (perform) a restricted task. When more solutions are needed, the proliferon has to be transformed by “injury” which broadens its experience and memory. Injury drives the proliferon to novel solutions, and makes it creative. Yet injury may kill. Which illustrates a fundamental property of life. For the sake of gaining knowledge and a new experience, life is often willing to face a threat.