Creative Evolutionary Systems

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engine or creative machine for new designs. We studied this idea in the context

of digital logic. We suggested that new principles may be able to be discovered by

examining a series of evolved designs, in our case, for arithmetic logic circuits.

We examined the concept of the space of all circuit representations but feel that

similar ideas may well carry over to the general field of design. The human-de-

signed algebras that form subsets of the space of all representations both for bi-

nary and multiple-valued systems are analogous ...