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The doctrine of computer life is not congenial to many people. Often they have not thought in any depth about the idea, and it necessarily disturbs their psychological and intellectual frame of reference: it forces a reappraisal of what it is to be alive, what it is to be human, and whether there are profound, yet un expected, implications in the development of modern com puters. There is abundant evidence to suggest that we are wit nessing the emergence of a vast new family of life-forms on earth, organisms that are not based on the familiar metabolic chemistries yet whose manifest 'life credentials' are accumulating year by year. It is a mistake to regard biology as a closed science, with arbitrarily limited categories; and we should agree with Jacob (1974) who observed that 'Contrary to what is imagined, biology is not a unified science'. Biology is essentially concerned with living things, and we should be reluctant to assume that at anyone time our concept and understanding of life are complete and incapable of further refinement. And it seems clear that much of the continuing refinement of biological categories will be stimulated by advances in systems theory, and in particular by those advances that relate to the rapidly expanding world of computing and robotics. We should also remember what Pant in (1968) said in a different context: 'the biological sciences are unrestricted . . . and their investigator must be prepared to follow their problems into any other science whatsoever.
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1 The Nature of Computer Life.- Preamble.- Are Computers Alive?.- Means, Ends and Entropy.- Strategies for Survival.- Symbiosis and Survival.- Evolution and Machines.- Features of Computer Life.- Summary.- 2 Exploring the Life Criteria.- Preamble.- The Place of Energy.- The Importance of Information.- The Route to Reproduction.- Growth in Machines.- Summary.- 3 Freedom and Autonomy.- Preamble.- The Miller Decider.- Philosophy and Free Will.- Free Will as Choice.- The Autonomous Computer.- The Autonomous Robot.- Creativity and Chance.- Summary.- 4 Towards Artificial Emotion.- Preamble.- Reason and Emotion.- The Physiology of Emotion.- The Cybernetics of Emotion.- AI, Cognition and Emotion.- Emotion in Computers.- The Ethical Computer.- The Aesthetic Computer.- Summary.- 5 Relating to Computer Life.- Preamble.- Responses to Computer Life.- Developing the Relationship.- The Intimate Connection.- Summary.- 6 The Future.- References.
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