书目名称 | The Biology of Computer Life | 副标题 | Survival, Emotion an | 编辑 | Geoff L. Simons | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The doctrine of computer life is not congenial to many people. Often they have not thought in any depth about the idea, and it necessarily disturbs their psychological and intellectual frame of reference: it forces a reappraisal of what it is to be alive, what it is to be human, and whether there are profound, yet un expected, implications in the development of modern com puters. There is abundant evidence to suggest that we are wit nessing the emergence of a vast new family of life-forms on earth, organisms that are not based on the familiar metabolic chemistries yet whose manifest ‘life credentials‘ are accumulating year by year. It is a mistake to regard biology as a closed science, with arbitrarily limited categories; and we should agree with Jacob (1974) who observed that ‘Contrary to what is imagined, biology is not a unified science‘. Biology is essentially concerned with living things, and we should be reluctant to assume that at anyone time our concept and understanding of life are complete and incapable of further refinement. And it seems clear that much of the continuing refinement of biological categories will be stimulated by advances in systems theory, and in parti | 出版日期 | Book 1985 | 关键词 | artificial intelligence; autonomous robot; cognition; creativity; cybernetics; emotion; energy; evolution; g | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8050-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4684-8052-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-8050-4 | copyright | G. L. Simons 1985 |
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