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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Grand, Steve. Creation. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001, c2000 (OCoLC)623223916 |
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| 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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Abstract:
"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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