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Creation : life and how to make it

Author: Steve Grand
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001, ©2000.
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"Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Grand, Steve.
Creation.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001, c2000
(OCoLC)623223916
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Steve Grand
ISBN: 0674006542 9780674006546 9780674011137 0674011139
OCLC Number: 46538592
Description: x, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Latter-day Frankenstein --
Failing the test --
Lies, damned lies and linguistics --
Guide to the intangible --
Levels of being and the general scheme of things --
Importance of being emergent --
Looking-glass worlds --
They call me Legion; for I am many --
On the balance of nature --
God's lego set --
Whole iguana --
Igor, hand me that screwdriver ... --
I am Ron's brain --
Three parts gin to one of vermouth --
Taking over the world --
Vapourware.
Responsibility: Steve Grand.
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"Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? And in this book--a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlooker to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverick--Steve Grand proposes an answer."--Book cover.

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