Artificial Life
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Artificial Life
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Author : Steven Levy
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1992
Artificial Life written by Steven Levy and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Computers categories.
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?
The Philosophy Of Artificial Life
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Author : Margaret A. Boden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Philosophy Of Artificial Life written by Margaret A. Boden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy categories.
The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading. This volume offers a selection of the most important philosophical work in the new and fast-growing interdisciplinary area of artifical life; it will set the agenda for future study and research. Artifical life (A-Life) research aims to synthesize the characteristics of life by artifical means, particularly employing computer technology. The essays chosen explore such fascinating themes as the nature of life, the relation between life and mind, and the limits of technology. The first two papers, one of which is the classic A-Life manifesto by Christopher Langton, provide a general overview of the subject and compare it with artificial intelligence (AI); in Part II, the contributors describe examples of A-Life research. Part III discusses various explanatory strategies in A-Life, and relates them to approaches in AI and cognitive science, while Part IV focuses on the concept of life in general. Finally, Part V explores A-Life's relation to functionalism and the feasibility of `strong' A-Life.
Artificial Life
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Author : Christopher G. Langton
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1997
Artificial Life written by Christopher G. Langton and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Computers categories.
This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life.
Artificial Life What Is Artificial Life
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Author : Sabine Heller
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-10
Artificial Life What Is Artificial Life written by Sabine Heller and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with Computers categories.
Master's Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Art - Computer Art / Graphics / Art in Media, grade: A, School of visual arts (MFA Computer Art), language: English, abstract: What are Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence and what is the difference between these two topics? My thesis paper deals with these questions and explores the differences and the thoughts Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence have in common. It is a short research of the history of Artificial Life and its connected philosophical, moral and ethical questions.
Artificial Life
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Author : Christopher Langton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-02
Artificial Life written by Christopher Langton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Social Science categories.
"In September 1987, the first workshop on Artificial Life was held at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Jointly sponsored by the Center for Nonlinear Studies, the Santa Fe Institute, and Apple Computer Inc, the workshop brought together 160 computer scientists, biologists, physicists, anthropologists, and other assorted ""-ists,"" all of whom shared a common interest in the simulation and synthesis of living systems. During five intense days, we saw a wide variety of models of living systems, including mathematical models for the origin of life, self-reproducing automata, computer programs using the mechanisms of Darwinian evolution to produce co-adapted ecosystems, simulations of flocking birds and schooling fish, the growth and development of artificial plants, and much, much more The workshop itself grew out of my frustration with the fragmented nature of the literature on biological modeling and simulation. For years I had prowled around libraries, shifted through computer-search results, and haunted bookstores, trying to get an overview of a field which I sensed existed but which did not seem to have any coherence or unity. Instead, I literally kept stumbling over interesting work almost by accident, often published in obscure journals if published at all."
Silicon Second Nature
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Author : Stefan Helmreich
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-11-16
Silicon Second Nature written by Stefan Helmreich and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-16 with Science categories.
Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs—such as computer viruses—as new forms of life. Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich's look at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life—primarily at the Santa Fe Institute, a well-known center for studies in the sciences of complexity—introduces readers to the people and programs connected with this unusual hybrid of computer science and biology. When biology becomes an information science, when DNA is downloaded into virtual reality, new ways of imagining "life" become possible. Through detailed dissections of the artifacts of Artifical Life, Helmreich explores how these novel visions of life are recombining with the most traditional tales told by Western culture. Because Artificial Life scientists tend to see themselves as masculine gods of their cyberspace creations, as digital Darwins exploring frontiers filled with primitive creatures, their programs reflect prevalent representations of gender, kinship, and race, and repeat origin stories most familiar from mythical and religious narratives. But Artificial Life does not, Helmreich says, simply reproduce old stories in new software. Much like contemporary activities of cloning, cryonics, and transgenics, the practice of simulating and synthesizing life in silico challenges and multiplies the very definition of vitality. Are these models, as some would claim, actually another form of the real thing? Silicon Second Nature takes Artifical Life as a symptom and source of our mutating visions of life itself.
Artificial Life What Is Artificial Life
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Author : Sabine Heller
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-09-29
Artificial Life What Is Artificial Life written by Sabine Heller and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-29 with Computers categories.
Master's Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Art - Computer Art / Graphics / Art in Media, grade: A, School of visual arts (MFA Computer Art), language: English, abstract: What are Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence and what is the difference between these two topics? My thesis paper deals with these questions and explores the differences and the thoughts Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence have in common. It is a short research of the history of Artificial Life and its connected philosophical, moral and ethical questions.
Artificial Life Ii
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Author : Christopher G. Langton
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 2003-04-17
Artificial Life Ii written by Christopher G. Langton and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-17 with Science categories.
Artificial life is a new field of scientific inquiry that studies biology by attempting to synthesize such biological phenomena as life, evolution, and ecological dynamics within computers and other "artificial" media. In addition to uncovering new ways to study life as we know it, a life extends research to the larger domain of life as it could be, whatever it might be made of and wherever it might be found in the universe.This proceedings volume, based on the second artificial life workshop held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1990, reflects the evolution and horizons of this rich field of study, and builds on the proceedings of the seminal first workshop, held at Los Alamos in 1987 (also available from Addison Wesley). This compendium includes more than 30 papers spanning the spectrum of a-life research, from studies of the origin of life to models of complex systems.
Artificial Life 8
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Author : Russell K. Standish
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003
Artificial Life 8 written by Russell K. Standish and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Computers categories.
How high-level behaviors arise from low-level rules, and how understanding this relationship can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet. The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules -- for example, how the simple interactions between ants and their environment lead to complex trail-following behavior. An understanding of such relationships in particular systems can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet. Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.
Artificial Life
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Author : Seiki Akama
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-11-29
Artificial Life written by Seiki Akama and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-29 with Computers categories.
This book provides some resources of Artificial Life. Artificial Life (ALife or A-Life) is the research area which simulates a life computationally. It involves several approaches to living systems in artificial manners. It was recognized as a scientific field in the 1980's. Artificial Life is related to many scientific fields including biology and computer science, and its history is old. In fact, the earlier works have been done by people like Turing and von Neumann. Fields like that neural networks, evolutionary computation, and cellular automaton constitute the foundations for Artificial Life. The so-called wet ware is an approach in more biology-oriented, which is known that there are some Artificial Life Systems at present. It is expected to see further progresses of this exciting field. The materials include: history, philosophy, related areas, recent developments, etc. Starting from the overview, the authors give an exposition of basic subjects like cellular automaton, neural networks, evolutionary computation, and wet ware. The authors also introduce some examples of Artificial Life Systems like Boids, Tierra, and Open Warm. The book is intended for those, like experts and students, who wish to get involved in the field as a monograph or a textbook for the subject. It is also useful for beginners. But, the authors assume that the reader has mastered the material ordinarily covered in AI and mathematics.