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book chapter · Artificial life & machine evolution

An Approach to the Synthesis of Life

Thomas S. Ray · 1991

Artificial Life II, Addison-Wesley

Thomas Ray's chapter An Approach to the Synthesis of Life, in the proceedings Artificial Life II. Both papers cite it for artificial life, which has bred digital organisms for decades, one of swarm ecology's nearest neighbors. Swarm ecology differs in making metabolism the hinge between bred and wild lineages, and observation the central problem of method.

Cited in
both papers (Flagship: Introduction; Companion §1)
Used for
Neighboring fields (introduction)
Strand
Artificial life & machine evolution · Artificial life & digital organisms

Cite

@incollection{ray1991approach,
  title = {An Approach to the Synthesis of Life},
  author = {Thomas S. Ray},
  year = {1991},
  howpublished = {Artificial Life II, Addison-Wesley},
  url = {http://tomray.me/pubs/alife2/Ray1991AnApproachToTheSynthesisOfLife.pdf},
}