Artificial Life Iii (SANTA FE INSTITUTE STUDIES IN THE SCIENCES OF COMPLEXITY PROCEEDINGS)

By Christopher G. Langton

Book Overview

Artificial Life is the study of man-made systems that exhibit behaviors characteristic of natural living systems, such as self-organization, reproduction, development, and even evolution. It complements the traditional biological sciences concerned with the analysis of living organisms by attempting to synthesize and study life-like behaviors within computers or other alternative media. By extending the empirical foundation upon which biology rests beyond the carbon-chain based life that has evolved on Earth, Artificial Life can contribute to the theoretical biology by locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger context of life-as-it-could-be, in any of its possible physical incarnations."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201624923
• ISBN13: 9780201624922
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.8"