Artificial Life
Mark A. Bedau, Editor
Fall 1993/Winter 1994, Vol. 1, No. 1_2, Pages 211-227
(doi: 10.1162/artl.1993.1.1_2.211)
Beyond Digital Naturalism
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Abstract
The success of Artificial Life (ALife) depends on whether it will help solve the conceptual problems of biology. Biology may be viewed as the science of the transformation of organizations. Yet biology lacks a theory of organization. We use this as an example of the challenge that ALife must meet.