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008 010301s2001 maua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001024165
020 $a0674006542 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm46538592
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050 00 $aQH324.2$b.G73 2001
082 00 $a570/.1/13$221
100 1 $aGrand, Steve.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001003750
245 10 $aCreation :$blife and how to make it /$cSteve Grand.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2001.
300 $ax, 230 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [219]-220) and index.
520 1 $a"Working mostly alone, almost singlehandedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems - creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life?
520 8 $aAnd in this book - a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlookers to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverick - Steve Grand proposes an answer.".
520 8 $a"From the composition of the brains and bodies of artificial life forms to the philosophical guidelines and computational frameworks that define them, Creation plumbs the practical, social, and ethical aspects and implications of the state of the art.
520 8 $aBut more than that, the book gives readers access to the insights Grand acquired in writing Creatures - insights that yield a view of the world that is surprisingly antireductionist, antimaterialist, and (to a degree) antimechanistic, a view that sees matter, life, mind, and society as simply different levels of the same thing. Such a hierarchy, Grand suggests, can be mirrored by an equivalent one that exists inside a parallel universe called cyberspace."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aBiological systems$xComputer simulation.
650 0 $aArtificial intelligence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008180
650 0 $aArtificial life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95009889
852 00 $boff,glx$hQH324.2$i.G73 2001