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ISBN: 9780262277921 | 336 pp. | January 1997

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 AI/Computational Modelling
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Complexity/Complex Systems/Dynamic Systems
Computational Neuroscience
Connectionism
Robotics
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 Evolution/Culture
Cognitive Ethology
Cooperation and Competition
Cultural Evolution
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 Neuroscience
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 Philosophy of Mind
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 Psychology I: Foundations of Cognition
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Perception and Sensation
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 Psychology II: High-Level Cognition
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Artificial Life

An Overview
Edited by Christopher G. Langton
Overview

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

  1. Foreword

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  2. Editor's Introduction

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  3. 1. Artificial Life as a Tool for Biological Inquiry

    Charles Taylor and David Jefferson

    PDF (933 KB)

  4. Cooperation and Community Structure in Artificial Ecosystems

    Kristian Lindgren and Mats G. Nordahl

    PDF (1.5 MB)

  5. Extended Molecular Evolutionary Biology: Artificial Life Bridging the Gap Between Chemistry and Biology

    P. Schuster

    PDF (1.9 MB)

  6. Visual Models of Morphogenesis

    Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

    PDF (1 MB)

  7. The Artificial Life Roots of Artificial Intelligence

    Luc Steels

    PDF (2.4 MB)

  8. Toward Synthesizing Artificial Neural Networks that Exhibit Cooperative Intelligent Behavior: Some Open Issues in Artificial Life

    Michael G. Dyer

    PDF (1.6 MB)

  9. Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents

    Pattie Maes

    PDF (1.9 MB)

  10. Chaos as a Source of Complexity and Diversity in Evolution

    Kunihiko Kaneko

    PDF (1 MB)

  11. An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life

    Thomas S. Ray

    PDF (2.1 MB)

  12. Beyond Digital Naturalism

    Walter Fontana, Günter Wagner and Leo W. Buss

    PDF (1.1 MB)

  13. Learning About Life

    Mitchel Resnick

    PDF (952.4 KB)

  14. Book Reviews: Books on Artificial Life and Related Topics

    David G. Stork

    PDF (421.9 KB)

  15. Computer Viruses as Artificial Life

    Eugene H. Spafford

    PDF (1.1 MB)

  16. Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life

    Melanie Mitchell and Stephanie Forrest

    PDF (1.6 MB)

  17. Artificial Life as Philosophy

    Daniel Dennett

    PDF (204.6 KB)

  18. Levels of Functional Equivalence in Reverse Bioengineering

    Stevan Hamad

    PDF (686.7 KB)

  19. Why Do We Need Artificial Life?

    Eric W. Bonabeau and Guy Theraulaz

    PDF (1.7 MB)

  20. Index

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