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The Philosophy of Artificial Life
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A typical undergraduate program in computer science might make contact with the field of philosophy at several points in courses on artificial intelligence and the theory of computation. This article discusses another potential point of contact: artificial life, an area of computer science devoted to the study of living systems through the use of computers to simulate biological phenomena. Philosophers have started to discuss the prospect of genuine life emerging from artificial systems, an idea that captivates students in our experimental course on artificial life. Here we examine an especially compelling illustration of this idea, one that has given our students an unusual perspective on computer science and a genuine appreciation for its interdisciplinary nature.