Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World

by Stefan Helmreich

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520208005
• ISBN13: 9780520208001
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"