Growing Neural Cellular Automata
神经细胞自动生长机
Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis
形态变化的微分模型
Most multicellular organisms begin their life as a single egg cell - a single cell whose progeny reliably self-assemble into highly complex anatomies with many organs and tissues in precisely the same arrangement each time.
大多数多细胞有机体生命起源于一个单细胞-单细胞的后代每次都可靠的自组装成高度复杂的解剖结构,其中许多器官和机构每次都使用完全同样的组织方式。
The ability to build their own bodies is probably the most fundamental skill every living creature possesses.
构建自己的躯体或许是每个物种具有的最基本的技能
Morphogenesis (the process of an organism’s shape development) is one of the most striking examples of a phenomenon called self-organisation
形态进化(一个有机体形体发展的过程)是称为自组织现象最明显的例子
Cells, the tiny building blocks of bodies, communicate with their neighbors to decide the shape of organs and body plans, where to grow each organ, how to interconnect them, and when to eventually stop.
细胞，人体的最小组成部分，通过和相邻细胞间的交流来决定机体的形状和人体的计划，每个器官生长的位置，他们之间如何交流，什么时候停止生长。
Understanding the interplay of the emergence of complex outcomes from simple rules and homeostatic feedback loops is an active area of research
从简单的规则和稳态的反馈回路中理解复杂结果出现的交互作用是一个活跃的研究领域
What is clear is that evolution has learned to exploit the laws of physics and computation to implement the highly robust morphogenetic software that runs on genome-encoded cellular hardware.
显而易见的是进化已经学习到利用物理规律和计算力来完成运行在记忆编码细胞的硬件上高度健壮的软件
This process is extremely robust to perturbations.
Even when the organism is fully developed, some species still have the capability to repair damage - a process known as regeneration.
即使当有机体完全发育，某些物种仍然具有自我修复损害的能力，这个叫做复生的过程
Some creatures, such as salamanders, can fully regenerate vital organs, limbs, eyes, or even parts of the brain! Morphogenesis is a surprisingly adaptive process.
某些生物，比如salamanders，可以完全再生重要的组织，腿，眼睛，甚至是部分大脑！形态变化是一个很惊奇的适应的过程。
Sometimes even a very atypical development process can result in a viable organism - for example, when an early mammalian embryo is cut in two, each half will form a complete individual - monozygotic twins!
有时，即使一个非常不同寻常的发育过程也能产生一个活得机体。例如，当一个早期的哺乳动物被切分成两个时，每个部分都将形成一个完整的个体，单卵双胞胎