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Record 1 2001-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
  • Mathematics
CONT

[A Danish physicist from the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Steen] Rasmussen, during the late 1980s, created a computer model that imitated primordial conditions with an artificial chemistry consisting of millions of computer instructions. As the computer ran through thousands of generations, digital "proto-organisms" died and new ones were created. Rasmussen concluded, among other things, that the evolution of lifelike forms depended on symbiotic, or co-operative structures, which seemed to emerge spontaneously within the system. "I think this is a law of the universe," says Rasmussen. "and it makes possible the jump from nonliving to living."

OBS

Taken from an article on artificial life.

Key term(s)
  • digital protoorganism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
  • Mathématiques

Spanish

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