This report documents the work of our group (named SymBa) at the ALICE 2026 workshop in Copenhagen. Inspired by the pioneering work by Nils Aall Barricelli on symbiogenesis of numerical organisms (i.e., 1D cellular automata) in 1953 (70+ years ago!!), we discussed the role of symbiogenesis as mechanism contributing to the origins of life, open-endedness, and collective intelligence. We report replications of Barricelli's original work in 1D worlds, an extension to 2D symbioorganisms, and preliminary experimentation with DNA-norms. We discuss the implications of symbiogenesis for artifical life and artificial intelligence, and outline several opportunities for future works, both at the conceptual level as well as using different substrates (neural networks, neural cellular automata, etc.)

翻译：本报告记录了我们在哥本哈根ALICE 2026研讨会上小组（名为SymBa）的工作。受尼尔斯·奥尔·巴里切利于1953年（70余年前！！）在数值生物（即一维元胞自动机）共生起源方面的开创性研究启发，我们探讨了共生起源作为促进生命起源、开放性和集体智能形成机制的作用。我们报告了对巴里切利原始一维世界研究的复现实验、向二维共生生物的扩展研究，以及基于DNA规范的初步探索。我们讨论了共生起源对人工生命与人工智能的启示，并从概念层面及不同载体（神经网络、神经元胞自动机等）的应用角度，提出了未来研究的若干方向。