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Artificial life (ALife or A-Life) is a field of study wherein researchers examine systems related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution, through the use of simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. [1] The discipline was named by Christopher Langton, an American computer scientist, in 1986. [2]
The earliest examples of artificial life involve sophisticated automata constructed using pneumatics, mechanics, and/or hydraulics.The first automata were conceived during the third and second centuries BC and these were demonstrated by the theorems of Hero of Alexandria, which included sophisticated mechanical and hydraulic solutions. [2]
A Boids example created in OpenGL. Boids is an artificial life program, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds, and related group motion. His paper on this topic was published in 1987 in the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. [1]
One important topic in synthetic biology is synthetic life, that is concerned with hypothetical organisms created in vitro from biomolecules and/or chemical analogues thereof. Synthetic life experiments attempt to either probe the origins of life , study some of the properties of life, or more ambitiously to recreate life from non-living ...
Artificial creation is a field of research that studies the primary synthesis of complex lifelike structures from primordial lifeless origins.. The field bears some similarity to artificial life, but unlike artificial life, artificial creation focuses on the primary emergence of complex structures and processes of abiogenesis.
With proprietary compounds created in partnership with Aleksandra Radlinska of Penn State’s department of civil and environmental engineering and J.P. Gevaudan in architectural engineering ...
Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
Artificial reproduction is the re-creation of life brought about by means other than natural ones. It is new life built by human plans and projects. Examples include artificial selection , artificial insemination , in vitro fertilization , artificial womb , artificial cloning , and kinematic replication .