Artificial Life 601Artificial life is not just science and engineering. It is also an important new tool
for philosophy. In fact, the interests and methods of artificial life and philosophy
overlap in a natural way, illustrating how the sciences and the humanities can work
together in the pursuit of shared goals. If artificial life is successful in creating
wholly new forms of life, it will also have a hand in changing the nature of the
world in which we live. In any case, it is clear that artificial life will continue to
have a significant and distinctively constructive impact on a wide variety of old
and new philosophical questions.
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