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The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling

Year: 2002

Type: article

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.

Source: Artificial Life

DOI: 10.1162/106454602753694783

Authors: Michael Wheeler, Seth Bullock, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Jason Noble, Mark Bedau, Philip Husbands, Simon Kirby, Anil Seth

Institutions: University of Dundee, University of Leeds, University of Sussex, Reed College, University of Oklahoma, University of Edinburgh, Neurosciences Institute

Language: English

Topic: Cybernetics and Technology in Society

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2162675321

FWCI: 13.24

Cites: 53

Cited by: 31

Related to: 10