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Introduction to ALife

ALife/ADiscipline

• An open-ended project of exploring life-as-it-could-be, beyond life-as-we-know-it (LAICB >> LAWKI)

• ...more of a viewpoint or philosophy of inquiry than a discipline per se.
  

• ...makes heavy use of 'lateral idea transfer' between different fields, borrowing tools and perspectives from physics, chemistry, computation, mathematics, complexity......

• 'Artificial Life' encompasses the art and science of exploring real and abstract living processes.

Cellular automata pattern accreted from a Life-like CA rule (B3/S345678). By Rive Sunder in developing Cellular Automata Reinforcement Learning Environment (2021) https://github.com/rivesunder/carle.