Emergence of Digital Life
By BenKoskiMarch 27, 2006 - 21:34
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I saw this article on Slashdot today touting the "first digital simulation of an entire life form," and couldn't help but think of the Karl Sims' "evolved virtual creates" that we saw a few weeks ago during our discussion of evolutionary algorithms. Though the mechanisms and scale of simulation are wholly different (Sims, as I understand it, worked with locomotion mechanisms, while these researchers worked on the cellular level)--the resulting "life forms" existing only in virtual space are quite similar in concept. The premise of both experiments is also remarkably similar in that both groups believed that they could effectively simulate organic life forms using computer algorithms.