Technology A digital "primordial soup" with no rules or direction can lead to the emergence of self-replicating artificial life forms, in an experiment that may hint at how biological life began on Earth Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email Snippets of self-replicating code compete for space in a virtual environmentGoogle A self-replicating form of artificial life has arisen from a digital “primordial soup” of random data, despite a lack of explicit rules or goals to encourage ...