Creation: Life and How to Make It
Steve Grand
Working mostly alone, Grand produced Creatures(R), a computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? In this book Grand proposes an answer.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2001
- ISBN-13
- 9780674011137
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Artificial lifeComputer scienceConsciousness and biology
Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeShortlisted(2001)
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