Could someone explain the obsessive devotion to doing all Artificial "Life" research in terms of Cellular Automata? If you could supply the
mathematical reasoning for this, I would be very interested in hearing the answer.
And preferably an answer that goes beyond just saying that Von Neumann used Cellular Automata in his ALife research.
Also, if anyone knows of alternative methods to CA in studying the properties of life then I would also be interested in learning of these.
All in all, I find these procedurally generated art pieces to be rather underwhelming in any serious attempt or study of what artifical life is/can be.
> digital organisms and evolution
This is a claim without definition of what a non-biological organism even is. Could we just claim that any CA, any program is "living" while it is running?
I would love to see some formality before claims are made in this area.
EDIT: After watching the "Planet Gaia" video [0], I feel even more like the excitement about this is no different than the excitement for a video game and not for actual scientific progress. Cool code and cool visuals. Very little in the way of understanding life better.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9R6zrdl6jM
And preferably an answer that goes beyond just saying that Von Neumann used Cellular Automata in his ALife research.
Also, if anyone knows of alternative methods to CA in studying the properties of life then I would also be interested in learning of these.
All in all, I find these procedurally generated art pieces to be rather underwhelming in any serious attempt or study of what artifical life is/can be.
> digital organisms and evolution
This is a claim without definition of what a non-biological organism even is. Could we just claim that any CA, any program is "living" while it is running?
I would love to see some formality before claims are made in this area.
EDIT: After watching the "Planet Gaia" video [0], I feel even more like the excitement about this is no different than the excitement for a video game and not for actual scientific progress. Cool code and cool visuals. Very little in the way of understanding life better.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9R6zrdl6jM