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Language Structures in Cellular Automata

Language Structures in Cellular Automata

Eleonora Bilotta, Pietro Pantano
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 34
ISBN13: 9781615207879|ISBN10: 1615207872|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923174|EISBN13: 9781615207886
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-787-9.ch009
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Eleonora Bilotta and Pietro Pantano. "Language Structures in Cellular Automata." Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena, IGI Global, 2010, pp.248-281. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-787-9.ch009

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E. Bilotta & P. Pantano (2010). Language Structures in Cellular Automata. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-787-9.ch009

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Eleonora Bilotta and Pietro Pantano. "Language Structures in Cellular Automata." In Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-787-9.ch009

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Abstract

The ingenuity of nature and the power of DNA have generated an infinite range of languages - including human language. The existence of these languages inspires us to design artificial cognitive systems whose dynamic interaction with the environment is grounded, at least to some extent, on the same basic laws. Modern scientific knowledge provides us with new opportunities to investigate and understand the logic underlying biological life. We can then use this logic to derive design principles and computational models for artificial systems. The technologies we apply in these studies provide us with new insights into the complexity of the processes underlying the evolutionary success of modern species. We have yet to fully penetrate the mysteries of these natural languages. Nonetheless, the literature suggests (Chomsky, 1957; Aronof & Rees-Miller, 2003; Bilotta & Pantano, 2006) that while the superficial features of different languages depend on different physical supports and different mechanisms, their deep structures share common rules. These constitute linguistic universals, organized at different levels of complexity, where each level has its own rules of composition. At all levels, we can consider these rules as “production rules” or even as rules of reproduction.

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