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Relationship between life, agency, and creativity

Characterize the relationship between life, agency, and creativity by determining the nature and structure of their interdependence, and provide a formal account of this relationship to enable systematic investigation.

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Background

The authors argue that both agency and creativity are essential characteristics of life and suggest they are interdependent. They explicitly identify the relationship among life, agency, and creativity as an open question and position their analysis of the self-optimization model as a step toward a formal framing.

Addressing this question is important for unifying theoretical perspectives in artificial life, bridging models of agency with models of creativity, and guiding future empirical and computational investigations.

References

We return to the open question of the relationship between life, agency, and creativity later in our discussion (Sec.~\ref{sec:Discussion}).

— Untapped Potential in Self-Optimization of Hopfield Networks: The Creativity of Unsupervised Learning (2501.04007 - Weber et al., 10 Dec 2024) in Subsection 4.3, Minimal Agency in the SO Model