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Digital Ecosystems

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An interactive browser-based platform for exploring multi-agent neural cellular automata ecosystems in real time. Watch digital species compete, cooperate, and evolve — then reach into the petri dish yourself.

Digital Ecosystems tl;dr We built an interactive browser-based platform for exploring multi-agent neural cellular automata ecosystems in real time. Multiple neural species compete for territory on a shared grid while learning via gradient descent. You can checkpoint the simulation, tweak parameters, and branch into alternative futures from the same starting point. We report five case studies spanning edge-of-chaos dynamics, emergent cooperation, and environmental construction. Try it live → Introduction Neural Cellular Automata learn local update rules through backpropagation, producing…

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