Artificial Life: An Overview; Editor: Langton, Christopher G.; Paperback

Editor: Langton, Christopher G.
Complex Adaptive Systems; Paperback
352 pages
Published: March 1997
The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262621126

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.Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, raises scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical issues. This book brings together overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of Artificial Life.