false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177870944m/737831.jpg 737831 5 This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS.<br><br>What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico.<br><br>But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end? 2314367 1992 Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology total:40|5:7|4:15|3:15|2:3|1:0| 40 146 68 2 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Oct 18 18:35:15 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 18:35:15 -0700 2007 Artificial Intelligence, not a good title since I make little distinction between thinking devices made of proteins and those made of other material, except that the protein made thinking devices have been in development for a long time and are v...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 19:36:14 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 12:28:18 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Nov 13 04:28:45 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 04:28:45 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Oct 16 14:18:04 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 14:18:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Sep 21 09:19:43 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 09:19:43 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 15:06:33 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 15:06:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 07 07:21:31 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 07:21:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 13 23:20:54 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 23:20:54 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jul 12 10:33:32 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 10:33:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 25 12:32:09 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 12:32:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 07 16:20:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 16:20:43 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed May 20 00:55:48 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 00:55:48 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Thu May 14 20:09:49 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 20:09:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 11 11:14:57 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 11:14:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 26 15:28:31 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 15:28:31 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Feb 22 13:28:22 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 13:28:22 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 20 09:14:10 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 09:14:10 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Feb 18 16:12:46 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 16:12:46 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 17 13:54:41 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 13:54:45 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 12:04:29 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 12:04:29 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=737831