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Article #152Re: Artificial life and laws of life
From: Scott Robert Ladd
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:00
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nancy@la.e2100.com wrote: > The glider of Life Game was proved as a universal Turing computer, a > necessary condition for all forms of life. Nonetheless, it is still only a > game. It lacks the essence of any biological life, the mass. It depends on how you view mass; since matter is simply another form of energy, and the glider consists of energy, the two forms of life are, perhaps, not so different. No, I do not believe that a glider is "alive" in the biological sense; however, it demonstrates the essence of life by showing that complex behavior arises from simple rules. A sufficiently complex automata would exhibit the characteristics of a living thing. -- <Scott Robert Ladd> srladd@frontier.net Visit http://www.frontier.net/~srladd, home of ALife Central and Insight/Java
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