Motivated by the need to paint a more general picture of what life is—and could be—with
respect to the rest of the phenomena of the universe, we propose a new vocabulary for …

We present a benchmark study of autonomous, chemical agents exhibiting associative
learning of an environmental feature. Associative learning systems have been widely …

It is common in origins of life research to view the first stages of life as the passive result of
particular environmental conditions. This paper considers the alternative possibility: that the …

Recent empirical work has characterized motile oil droplets—small, self-propelled oil
droplets whose active surface chemistry moves them through their aqueous environment …

This thesis broadly concerns the origins of life problem, pursuing a joint approach that
combines general philosophical/conceptual reflection on the problem along with more …

This is a contribution to the formalization of the concept of agents in multivariate Markov
chains. Agents are commonly defined as entities that act, perceive, and are goal-directed. In …

We demonstrate the emergence of spontaneous temperature regulation by the combined
action of two sets of dissipative structures. Our model system comprised an incompressible …

The lattice Boltzmann method is an efficient computational fluid dynamics technique that can
accurately model a broad range of complex systems. As well as single-phase fluids, it can …

Small-scale Indigenous Irrigation Systems (IIS) are water-sharing societies which have been
observed to persist for long periods of time finding a dynamic equilibrium with the …

In this paper I present a general modelling framework for coupled fluid dynamics and
chemistry problems, and apply it to the simulation of a series of complex, homeostatic …