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Learn more or try it for yourself here: https://github.com/Transcenduality/Genetic-Particle-Life

The new genetically evolving version is now on GitHub! (Free and open source): https://github.com/Transcenduality/primordis/tree/main

This is a 'particle life' simulation I've been refining for quite some time.

The goal was to better understand the formation of the first 'living' organisms, and how they may have arisen from chemical interactions. Different chemicals are represented by different colors in the simulation.

Despite the simulation being a fairly simple set of particle interactions meant to mimic chemical bonding, surprisingly life-like structure emerges, without being designed.

I'd like to ask for your opinions or any parallels to real biology, as I am not a biologist. I am mainly a programmer with a deep interest in emergent systems (systems that produce complex behavior from simple rules).

Perhaps this is not just a physics simulation. Could these self-organizing processes be similar to those which gave rise to life in the universe?

This is a real-time 'particle life' simulation using 32,000 particles of 64 interaction types.

I consider the structures emerging here to be a form of digital "proto-life" because they exhibit the foundational hallmarks of biological systems, driven purely by simple physical laws:

Just like a biological cell, the pattern persists even as the pieces change. Particles are constantly flowing in and out of these structures, yet the overarching "organism" survives. They are successfully resisting entropy.

Ultimately, life might not be a magical property exclusive to organic chemistry. It may simply be a localized behavior of information; a mathematical inevitability when matter is subjected to the right balance of attraction, repulsion, and time.

Perhaps what we're watching here isn't just a simulation of physics. Could we be looking at the exact same physical processes of self-organization that led to biology?

This is a real-time particle life simulation using 32,000 particles of 64 interaction types.

Watching the time-lapse, I've realized that the distinction between 'living' and 'non-living' is much more fluid than we think. Could we be looking at the exact same physical processes of self-organization that led to biology?

This is a particle life sim I built in Python.

In the simulation, particles interact with one another based on their types and based on the distance between interacting particles.

They begin randomly distributed, but form into fascinating and complex structures.

You can try it yourself (free and open source) here: https://github.com/Transcenduality/primordis

What do you think?

This is a particle life simulation I've been working on for a long time, with the goal of producing hierarchical emergent complexity. I'm pretty happy with the results, what do you think?

Github link: https://github.com/Transcenduality/primordis