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Book Title
Artificial Life : A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet
ISBN
9780679743897
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679743898
ISBN-13
9780679743897
eBay Product ID (ePID)
433638

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
400 Pages
Publication Name
Artificial Life : a Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology
Language
English
Subject
Biotechnology, Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, Free Will & Determinism, Neural Networks
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Author
Steven Levy
Subject Area
Philosophy, Computers, Science
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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LCCN
92-050600
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"We used to think we knew what life is [but] not any more. 'Artificial life' has become a strange and exciting frontier of modern science...and Steven Levy makes an ideal tour guide." -- James Gleick. author of Chaos and Genius
Synopsis
This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS. What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico. But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end?

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