Books that helped

Artificial Life

Steven Levy · The story of scientists building computer-based organisms that evolve, reproduce and behave like living things.

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What people said

When I was a teen I read Steven Levy's book "Artifical Life". It captured my imagination in a way that the biomorph program in a Blind Watchmaker also had. Ever since then I've played with toy alife models.

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