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165 x 240 x 25mm
Mankind now has the power to create true artificial life, playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in both cyberspace and in the real world. Steve Grand provides an authoritative and comprehensive tour of the frontiers of this burgeoning new creation. Surveying what has been achieved so far, he looks at future possibilities for generating autonomous, intelligent, even conscious, living things and asks the fundamental questions: What is life? What should the brains and bodies of these new life forms be like? What philosophical guidelines and computational frameworks are necessary? How much can we learn from the evolution of natural life forms? What are the practical, social and ethical implications of this research?
