# Flow-Lenia > **Machine-Evolution Nexus:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] places this node within the history and governance of substrate-independent evolution. **Domain:** Artificial Life / Continuous Cellular Automata **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Flow-Lenia is a continuous cellular-automaton framework designed to support persistent, interacting structures while conserving mass-like quantity. ## Nexus Context It belongs to renewed attempts to create richer artificial media in which self-maintaining forms can reproduce and evolve without structure appearing from an unconstrained source. ## Evidence Boundary It is a research platform, not proof that open-ended evolution has been solved. Results depend on the model’s artificial physics and evaluation criteria. ## Relationships [[wiki/Open-Ended Evolution|Open-Ended Evolution]], [[wiki/Artificial Life|Artificial Life]], [[wiki/Cellular Automata|Cellular Automata]], [[wiki/Artificial Ecology|Artificial Ecology]] ## Sources / Provenance - Flow-Lenia research literature; Sayama and Nehaniv (2025).