EXP-AUTOCATALYTIC-CORE-EXPLICIT-CATALYSIS

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Autocatalytic Core Explicit Catalysis — Stadler Alg 2 retro on 3 mnsky archives

2026-05-22 L4-L6 level 0

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Researchers tested a new way to model how complex systems can arise from simpler rules, specifically by allowing the agents themselves to act as catalysts that change the rules. They found that this new approach identified some important core sets of rules that were missed by previous methods. This work is still ongoing.

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Research hypothesis

Port Stadler 2603.02770 explicit-catalysis autocatalytic-core formalism to LLM-agent substrate: agents become first-class catalyst nodes (not just reactant nodes) in the rule-modification reaction network. Test whether autocatalytic-core ENUMERATION (Stadler's Alg 2) on archived rule_lineage data identifies non-trivial cores that the current Hordijk-Steel RAF formalism MISSES.

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