Artificial life an 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 toget...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
MIT Press
1995
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| Series: | Complex adaptive systems
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | "A Bradford book." |
| Physical Description: | xi, 340 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 9780585036151 0262277921 0585036152 9780262277921 |