由自然自动编码驱动的进化:重新组合物种、互动编码、合作和性生殖。 (Evolution is Driven by Natural Autoencoding: Reframing Species, Interaction Codes, Cooperation, and Sexual Reproduction)

from arxiv, In version 6, the paper expands on the resolution to the evolutionary paradox of sexual reproduction. We added clarifications and explanations including clearer definitions of terms. Changed figures. Edited text throughout and changed order of some sections

The continuity of life and its evolution, we proposed, emerge from an interactive group process manifested in networks of interaction. We term this process survival-of-the-fitted. Here, we reason that survival of the fitted results from a natural computational process we term natural autoencoding. Natural autoencoding works by retaining repeating interactions while non-repeating interactions disappear. (1) We define a species by its species interaction code, which consists of a compact description of the repeating interactions of species organisms with their external and internal environments. Species interaction codes are descriptions recorded in the infrastructure that enables repeating interactions. Encoding and decoding are interwoven. (2) Evolution proceeds by natural autoencoding of sustained changes in species interaction codes. DNA is only one element in natural autoencoding. (3) Natural autoencoding accounts for the paradox of genome randomization in sexual reproduction -- recombined genomes are analogous to the diversified inputs required for artificial autoencoding. The increase in entropy generated by genome randomization compensates for the decrease in entropy generated by organized life. (4) Natural autoencoding and artificial autoencoding algorithms manifest defined similarities and differences. Recognition of the importance of fittedness could well serve the future of a humanly livable biosphere.

翻译：我们提议,生命的连续性及其演化产生于互动网络中体现的互动式群体进程。我们把这个过程称为适合的存活过程。在这里,我们解释,装配过程的存续是由自然计算过程的结果,我们称之为自然自动编码。自然自动编码工作通过保留重复的相互作用和不重复的相互作用消失来进行。 (1)我们通过其物种相互作用代码来界定一种物种,其中包括对物种有机体与其外部和内部环境的重复相互作用的紧凑描述。物种相互作用代码是在能够重复互动的基础设施中记录的说明。编码和解码是相互交织的。 (2) 自然自动编码使物种相互作用代码的持续变化产生进化的结果。DNA只是自然自动编码的一个要素。 (3) 自然自动编码工作通过保留重复的相互作用和不重复的相互作用消失来进行。 (3) 自然自动编码工作说明性生殖基因组随机化的悖论 -- 重新组合基因组类似于人工自动编码所需的多样化投入。基因组随机化产生的增殖量弥补了有组织生命生成的酶的减少。 (4) 自然自动编码和人为自动自动编码的进化过程的进化过程的进化过程。