ALIFE 2025: Ciphers of Life Kyoto

You are invited to ALIFE 2025: Ciphers of Life, the premier international Conference on Artificial Life, to be held in Kyoto, Japan.

As keynote speaker, Dr. Hector Zenil will open the conference with a talk titled “Common Misconceptions of Algorithmic Complexity: Revisiting an Old New Framework for Causality & Life Sciences” on:

Date: 6 October 2025
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Conference site: https://2025.alife.org

In this keynote, Dr. Zenil will confront six deeply rooted misconceptions that have long shaped the fields of complexity science and computation, including misunderstandings about algorithmic randomness, entropy, computability, and the scope of digital computation. He will present a hierarchy of complexity measures and expose how confusion in this area often leads to misleading or exaggerated claims.

The talk will also offer a constructive alternative: a unified theory of causality grounded in algorithmic probability, and a new framework—Algorithmic Information Dynamics (AID)—to detect causal structures through perturbation-based methods. These ideas build upon the tools CTM and BDM, and connect to recent developments in neurosymbolic computing, including the SuperARC test for evaluating machine intelligence beyond current benchmarks.

This keynote will set the tone for a conference that explores the frontiers between life, computation and causality.

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