What is Lenia?

• Lenia portal - information about Lenia, e.g. videos, papers, source code, online demos.

Community

• Discord 🔥 - Chat about Artificial Life, especially Lenia and MNCA.

• Twitter - Tweets about Lenia, ALife, or anything interesting.

• Reddit - Progess update on Lenia (just started).

“From Conway to Lenia” tutorial

Full version (95MB, with results)

• If failed to open in your browser, open the below clean version.

Clean version (without results)

• Click Runtime menu > Run all to run the notebook and see the results.

Tutorial @ ALIFE 2021

• Slides 🔥

• Teaser video

• ALIFE 2021 official website

5 grand challenges in the study of Lenia:

1. Automated discovery - How to discover Lenia creatures through automated algorithms?
2. Emergent agency - Can we train Lenia creatures as emergent agents using machine learning?
3. Swarm cognition - Can higher-level cognition emerge in swarms of Lenia creatures?
4. Open-endedness - Can we achieve open-ended evolution with Lenia?
5. Turing completeness - Is Lenia able to perform universal computation like a computer?