Creating Artificial Life
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Artificial Life
This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS. What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico. But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end?
Artificial Life
This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life.
Creating Artificial Life
The first truly hands-on study of artificial life and its potential for synthesization by computer. Explores several definitions of life, and applies these widely divergent scientific viewpoints to such emerging fields as artificial intelligence, robotics, theoretical biology, cellular automata, and neural networks. Takes a provocative look at the future of artificial life and its implications for 21st century society. A 3.5" disk is included!