Re:'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists
by jamesbritt on Thursday May 20, 2010 @08:18PM
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'This is a living organism that is artificially made, "artificial life" applies to it just as much as the other subject.'
Maybe. But if you end up with a living organism, then that it's not artificial life; it's life (albeit artificially manufactured) . Whereas the software stuff is never anything but artificial.
Long run I'd expect anything that's alive to be called life, regardless of the process that lead to it.
Maybe. But if you end up with a living organism, then that it's not artificial life; it's life (albeit artificially manufactured) . Whereas the software stuff is never anything but artificial.
Long run I'd expect anything that's alive to be called life, regardless of the process that lead to it.