The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling

  • Authors:

  • Michael Wheeler;Seth Bullock;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Jason Noble;Mark Bedau;Philip Husbands;Simon Kirby;Anil Seth

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee, United Kingdom;Informatics Research Institute, School of Computing, University of Leeds, United Kingdom;School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, United Kingdom;Informatics Research Institute, School of Computing, University of Leeds, United Kingdom;Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA, Currently, Visiting Research Associate, University of Oklahoma, USA;School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom;Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom;The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Life
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Many artificial life researchers stress the interdisciplinary character of the field. Against such a backdrop, this report reviews and discusses artificial life, as it is depicted in, and as it interfaces with, adjacent disciplines (in particular, philosophy, biology, and linguistics), and in the light of a specific historical example of interdisciplinary research (namely cybernetics) with which artificial life shares many features. This report grew out of a workshop held at the Sixth European Conference on Artificial Life in Prague and features individual contributions from the workshop's eight speakers, plus a section designed to reflect the debates that took place during the workshop's discussion sessions. The major theme that emerged during these sessions was the identity and status of artificial life as a scientific endeavor.