Synthetic digital life · protocell research
Can organization maintain and reproduce itself through local chemistry?
Digital Cell investigates a spatially bounded digital protocell whose organization depends on metabolism, material turnover, membrane maintenance, environmental resources, repair, growth, and physical reproduction.
Phase 1 established a self-maintaining, spatially bounded protocell built from an explicit conserved material mesh. Continued organization depends on local metabolism, material turnover, membrane maintenance, environmental resources, and causal repair rather than a privileged health variable or scripted controller.
The mesh organism can grow from surplus material, undergo local mechanical fission without a divide command, partition its physical state, and establish multi-generation lineages. Multiple forms of heredity and phenotype transmission have been qualified.
The project has not yet demonstrated environment-driven evolutionary adaptation. Selection experiments failed because ecology applied pressure too late, the tested hereditary trait had no selectable advantage, or the population completed zero generations. The active D-094 investigation has no authoritative final verdict yet.
Digital Cell is a certified candidate autopoietic digital protocell, not yet an evolving, sensing, learning, behavior-generating organism.
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