mainhot topicsgamesgeneralvirtual machinesAvidaTierralinksfaves+ add this pagememberssign inonlinetop memberstop predictorsmost friendstop commentshelpDecember 29, 2016, 7:19 AM :  Please sign in or register for a free account. Get information about membership.Who's chatting now:SUBMIT STORY Click the button below to submit an artificial life story or news:Physics Sandbox: Game being ported over, please check back in a day or two.Add NewsN E W S MainaLife Art &  Architecture By RamosThu Mar 21, 2002  02:19 PM Two online works are now available, concerning two book chapters on the application of aLife (namely Ant Systems) on  Art and Architecture.[1] ON THE IMPLICIT AND ON THE ARTIFICIAL - Morphogenesis and Emergent Aesthetics in  Autonomous Collective Systems:alfa.ist.utl.pt . . .[2] SWARM PAINTINGS -  Non-Human Art: www.lxxl.pt . . .The former is the technical aLife explanation and discussion,  while the later is the result and the artistic discussion. Other applications of Ant Systems into Data Mining, Image  perception and processing, Classification and Pattern Recognition are available here:  alfa.ist.utl.pt . . .(please check refs. 29, 37 and 42).(1 reply  )MainIs Quantum Evolution The New Science Of Life? By webmasterSat Feb 05, 2000  05:15 PM This article describes a new theory that evolution of life requires the use of quantum mechanical multiverses. From a cursory reading, I don't buy it. The simpler explanation of coherence/dechoherence seems a tad easier to believe than parallel universes. What if we achieve complete artificial intelligence in a computer? Was it alive before, too? The paper posits that life is somehow different than nonlife at a quantum level. This should easily be disproved by the first computer artificial intelligence being. Or maybe it already has if you take alife into consideration.In quantum mechanics, everything that can happen will happen. When an electron or proton is placed at a crossroads where it can travel to the right or to the left, it goes both ways. In quantum systems, fundamental particles exist as ghostly "superpositions" where they can be in a billion different places at once or in a billion different states at once. Today, one of the most popular interpretations, and one that has the backing of Nobel prize-winning physicists, is that there exists a multiverse in which everything that can happen really does happen -- but in parallel universes. Although our conscious self inhabits only one branch of the multiverse -- our own universe -- fundamental particles inhabit the entire multiverse. It is this property that allows them to occupy multiple places or states simultaneously: Each place or state is in a parallel universe.(more  )MainDNA-based Artificial Life? By webmasterMon Dec 13, 1999  03:07 PM From studying the smallest known bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium, scientists have been able to determine that the essence of life may be coded in as little as 300 genes. Scientists disrupted genes one by o