Artificial Life
Jellyfish
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Special issue of Theoria et Historia Scientiarum,
Life and ALife: Interactions Between Natural and Synthetic Biology
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/ppcogsci/bhv/Alife
ALife is an interdisciplinary field of research that aims at studying
life or life-like processes through computational modelling
techniques and the simulation of real or theoretically possible
living systems or ecosystems. Neural networks, agents, or communities
of agents are embedded in simulated environments, or embodied and
embedded in real environments, where they are left to develop,
interact, learn, reproduce, adapt and evolve. ALALifeife scientists
can use such models to test various hypotheses about the nature of
life or cognition, or about complex process such as adaptation and
learning. As a concequence, the field stands at the intersection of
theoretical biology, computational biology and cognitive science. In
this special edition of Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, "Life and
ALife: Interactions Between Natural and Synthetic Biology", we
propose to investigate foundational questions related to the
interactions between (natural) biology and the synthetic-biological
approach of ALife.