Creating and Running ALife

• About ALife

• Unlike AI solving existing optimization problems, ALife is described as creating various new possibilities.

• life-as-we-know-it, life-as-it-could-be, possible worlds

• The first chapter depicts how the perspectives of Cybernetics and Systems Theory were introduced into various fields.

  • A good summary (although lacking perspective)
  • ALife attempts to understand the systems of life constructively, inheriting cybernetic concepts like “computation,” “systems,” and “life.”
    • It’s like saying, “You’ll understand once you try to create it,” (blu3mo)
    • Resembling Exploring New Models through Implementation
    • A constructivist approach, I guess

  • Understanding the most complex phenomenon of life and its environmental world

    • That’s the goal
    • I’m very interested in how subjectivity is being handled (blu3mo)

• Chapter 2 Creating Patterns of Life

  • Self-organization
    • Micro creates macro, which then changes micro in a loop
    • It’s indeed fascinating how repeating cell divisions result in humans mostly having the same shape (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
  • Due to reading Yokohama Station SF just before, I can’t help but think of the structure of Yokohama Station

• Nonlinear