Tapes Together Strong: The Co-evolution of Computation and Cooperation
How does cooperation evolve in complex agentic systems? Prior work in evolutionary game theory studies why individuals are incentivized to cooperate by isolating social interactions from the physical costs of behavior, while artificial life models traditionally study emergent self-replication without formalizing the dilemma between acquiring resources and preserving the shared energy needed to reproduce. In contrast, we introduce Autopoietic Game Theory, a computational model where social interactions, replication mechanisms, and their associated computational costs are endogenous and simultaneously co-evolving. We study these dynamics using a computational substrate of randomly initializ...
| Authors | Kunal Jha, Francesco Cicala, Blaise Agüera y Arcas et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.MA |
| Published | 9 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 9 September 2026 |
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