Artificial life

  • Authors:
  • Anthony Liekens

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

As defined by Langton (1992), "Artificial Life (AL, or Alife) is a new discipline that studies 'natural' life by attempting to recreate biological phenomena, from scratch, within computers and other 'artificial' media. AL complements the traditional analytic approach of traditional biology with a synthetic approach in which, rather than studying biological phenomena by taking apart living organisms to see how they work, one attempts to put together systems that behave like living organisms."