sensory processing capacities / sensory processing / chemical systems / artificial and natural evolving systems / biochemical systems / information processing / chemical path / genetic algorithm / chemical processing / candidate problem solutions / serial systems / physiochemical systems / contingent and accidental by-product / adaptive systems / model systems / control systems / genetic algorithms / process chemicals / Potential solutions / candidate solution / response systems / rapid prototyping technology / even construcing novel systems / candidate solutions / natural living systems / parallel systems / formal systems / life-like systems / dynamical systems / software systems / /
Organization
US Energy Department / Santa Fe Institute / /
Person
John von Neumann / Dov M. Gabbay / Christopher Stephens / Stephen Jay Gould / John Woods / Mohan Matthen / John Holland / Norbert Wiener / Paul Thagard / Rodney Brooks / Christopher Langton / Jordan Pollack / Daniel Dennett / J. Craig Venter / /
ARTIFICIAL LIFE Mark A. Bedau Contemporary artificial life (also known as “ALife”) is an interdisciplinary study of life and life-like processes. Its two most important qualities are that it focuses on the essential