Artificial Life,9780262121897

Artificial Life

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ISBN13: 9780262121897
ISBN10: 0262121891
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-07-06
Publisher(s): Bradford Books
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Summary

Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues-scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life, along with a new introduction by Christopher Langton, Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Life, founder of the discipline, and Director of the Artificial Life Program at the Santa Fe Institute.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Editor's Introduction ix
Artificial Life as a Tool for Biological Inquiry
1(14)
Charles Taylor
David Jefferson
Cooperation and Community Structure in Artificial Ecosystems
15(24)
Kristian Lindgren
Mats G. Nordahl
Extended Molecular Evolutionary Biology: Artificial Life Bridging the Gap Between Chemistry and Biology
39(22)
P. Schuster
Visual Models of Morphogenesis
61(14)
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
The Artificial Life Roots of Artificial Intelligence
75(36)
Luc Steels
Toward Synthesizing Artificial Neural Networks that Exhibit Cooperative Intelligent Behavior: Some Open Issues in Artificial Life
111(24)
Michael G. Dyer
Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents
135(28)
Pattie Maes
Chaos as a Source of Complexity and Diversity in Evolution
163(16)
Kunihiko Kaneko
An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life
179(32)
Thomas S. Ray
Beyond Digital Naturalism
211(18)
Walter Fontana
Gunter Wagner
Leo W. Buss
Learning About Life
229(14)
Mitchel Resnick
Books on Artificial Life and Related Topics
243(6)
David G. Stork
Computer Viruses as Artificial Life
249(18)
Eugene H. Spafford
Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life
267(24)
Melanie Mitchell
Stephanie Forrest
Artificial Life as Philosophy
291(2)
Daniel Dennett
Levels of Functional Equivalence in Reverse Bioengineering
293(10)
Stevan Harnad
Why Do We Need Artificial Life?
303(24)
Eric W. Bonabeau
Guy Theraulaz
Index 327

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