Philosophy of Biology

Innateness 583 As Chomsky has pointed out to me, in both cognitive science and biology it is useful as a first approximation to ...

584 [Collins, 2005] J. Collins. Nativism: In defense of a biological understanding.Philosophical Psy- chology, 18(2): 157–177, 2 ...

ARTIFICIAL LIFE Mark A. Bedau Contemporary artificial life (also known as “ALife”) is an interdisciplinary study of life and lif ...

586 Mark A. Bedau fundamental properties of living systems, especially self-reproduction and the evo- lution of complex adaptive ...

Artificial Life 587 life overlap, since living and flourishing in a changing and uncertain environment requires at least rudimen ...

588 Mark A. Bedau Explain how rules and symbols are generated from physical dynamics in living systems. What are the potential ...

Artificial Life 589 all intents and purposes they would be alive, for they would maintain themselves, spontaneously organize and ...

590 Mark A. Bedau code the minimal molecular functions needed by such artificial cells. Rasmussen et al.,[2003] have proposed a ...

Artificial Life 591 Digital evolution Implementing evolving systems in software is the most practical and constructive way to st ...

592 Mark A. Bedau Hillis [1992] demonstrated that co-evolution can spur evolutionary progress, and co-evolutionary arms races mi ...

Artificial Life 593 Emergence One of life’s amazing features is how the whole is more than the sum of the parts. This is called ...

594 Mark A. Bedau Evolution As noted above, the evolution of life has produced a remarkable growth in complex- ity. Simple proka ...

Artificial Life 595 provide even more information about evolution’s inherent creative potential, as long as that biosphere’s cre ...

596 Mark A. Bedau 1998]. And artificial life provides a constructive setting in which to explore the empirical implications of d ...

Artificial Life 597 of the living system. The intrinsic ontological status of this symbolic represen- tation is nothing more tha ...

598 Mark A. Bedau emergent dynamical patterns among human mental states are especially difficult to describe and explain. Descri ...

Artificial Life 599 life forms, and (iv) the risks of using artificial life technology. Artificial life’s ethical issues somewha ...

600 Mark A. Bedau technologies, it is impossible for us to know the likely consequences of their devel- opment. Yet we neverthel ...

Artificial Life 601 Artificial life is not just science and engineering. It is also an important new tool for philosophy. In fac ...

602 Mark A. Bedau [Dennett, 1997]D. C. Dennett.Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness. New York: Basic Books, ...