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Artificial Life : A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology by Steven Levy (1993, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679743898
ISBN-139780679743897
eBay Product ID (ePID)433638
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
Publication NameArtificial Life : a Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBiotechnology, Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, Free Will & Determinism, Neural Networks
Publication Year1993
TypeTextbook
AuthorSteven Levy
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Computers, Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-050600
Reviews"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
SynopsisThis 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?
