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|| ''Artificial Life'' by Christopher G. Langton, p. 1-48<br />
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=Artificial Life=
''Artificial Life'', SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Ed. C. Langton, Addison-Wesely Publishing Company, 1988.
==People==

==Ideas==
# Studying synthetic systems that exhibit the behaviors in natural living systems. 
## Maybe add unnatural living systems.
## ''life-as-it-could-be'', emphasis the author.
# Life-like behavior is independent from the underlying material.
# With no available extra-terrestrial biology to compare Earth based carbon biology to, Artificial Life is the only comparison available.
# Biology is top down.
# AL is bottom up.
# AL studies ''emergent behavior.'' Simple pieces work to together to create complex behaviors with no central control.
## Biology and Reality are both distributed systems.
# Artificiality - Human made to imitate biological behavior with high fidelity.
# Traditional programing, procedural and deterministic state, is inadequate. A dynamic model is needed.
## Open world vs. closed world.
## Ongoing dynamic behavior and not a final result.
## Turing Machine won't do for this.
# The essential features for computer-based AL are:
## They consist of populations of simple programs or specifications
## There is no single program that directs all of the other programs
## Each program describes the way in which a simple entity reacts to local situations in its environment, including interactions with other entities.
## There are ''no'' rules in the system that dictate global behavior.
## Any behavior at levels higher than the individual programs is therefore emergent.

=Acronyms=
AL Artificial Life

==References==


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