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15 Cards in this Set
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Question of AI and AL
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How does natural biology interact with AI?
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An example of natural biology interacting with AI.
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Madagascar hissing cockroach
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Genghis
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a walking robot
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First example of AL
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Vaucanson mechanical ducks
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Who is John von Neumann?
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he posits the abstract, logical self-reproduction of machines
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What is AL?
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Simply the synthetic approach to biology: rather than taking living things apart, AL attempts to put living things back together
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What is the purpose of AL?
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1. Scope is to broaden synthesis of any biological phenomena
2. Not restricted to carbon chemistry 3. Beyond life-as-we-know-it into the realm of life-as-it-could-be |
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Examples of AL
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1. Chris Langton - Game of LIfe
2. Craig Reynolds - Boids 3. Tom Ray - Tierra |
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What is Tom Ray's Tierra?
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Computer simulation in which programs compete for CPU time and access to main memory. These programs can mutate, self-replicate and recombine
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Example of GA today
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Patentable Circuitry
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Example of GA tomorrow
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Replicating Nanobots
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Farmer and Belin's Definition of Life
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1. Pattern in spacetime
2. Self-reproduction 3. Self-representation through DNA 4. Metabolism 5. Functional Interactions with environment 6. Interdependence of parts 7. Stability under disturbances and insensitivity to small changes 8. Ability to evolve |
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What is Margaret Boden's take on Metabolism?
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1. Energy dependence
2. Individual Energy Packets 3. Use and budgeting of energy for body construction and maintenance |
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What is more important in AL?
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Metabolism or evolution?
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Mark Alliksaar
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He claims that Tierra has metabolism
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