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| Preface | ||
| Evolutionary Systems for Brain Communications - Towards an Artificial Brain | 3 | |
| Emergent Functionality in Robotic Agents through On-Line Evolution | 8 | |
| Artificial Fishes with Autonomous Locomotion, Perception, Behavior, and Learning in a Simulated Physical World | 17 | |
| Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition | 28 | |
| Altruism in the Evolution of Communication | 40 | |
| Evolution of Metabolism for Morphogenesis | 49 | |
| Competition, Coevolution and the Game of Tag | 59 | |
| In Praise of Interactive Emergence, or Why Explanations Don't Have to Wait for Implementations | 70 | |
| Spencer and Dewey on Life and Mind | 80 | |
| Crossovers Generate Non-Random Recombinants under Darwinian Selection | 90 | |
| Steps Towards Co-Evolutionary Classification Neural Networks | 102 | |
| Self-Organisation in a System of Binary Strings | 109 | |
| Effects of Tree Size on Travelband Formation in Orang-Utans: Data Analysis Suggested by a Model Study | 119 | |
| A Biologically Inspired Immune System for Computers | 130 | |
| Egrets of a Feather Flock Together | 140 | |
| A Model of the Effects of Dispersal Distance on the Evolution of Virulence in Parasites | 152 | |
| Innate Biases and Critical Periods: Combining Evolution and Learning in the Acquisition of Syntax | 160 | |
| Dynamics of Self-Assembling Systems - Analogy with Chemical Kinetics | 172 | |
| From Local Actions to Global Tasks: Stigmergy and Collective Robotics | 181 | |
| How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics | 190 | |
| Evolving Visual Routines | 198 | |
| Evolving Sensors in Environments of Controlled Complexity | 210 | |
| Traffic at the Edge of Chaos | 222 | |
| A Phase Transition in Random Boolean Networks | 236 | |
| Toward an Evolvable Model of Development for Autonomous Agent Synthesis | 246 | |
| Bifurcation Structure in Diversity Dynamics | 258 | |
| On Modelling Life | 269 | |
| Genes, Phenes and the Baldwin Effect: Learning and Evolution in a Simulated Population | 277 | |
| Evolving Multi-Cellular Artificial Life | 283 | |
| Meshing of Engineering Domains by Meitotic Cell Division | 289 | |
| Simulating Natural Spacing Patterns of Insect Bristles Using a Network of Interacting Celloids | 295 | |
| Character Recognition Agents | 301 | |
| The Building Behavior of Lattice Swarms | 307 | |
| Modeling Adaptive Self-Organization | 313 | |
| Robot Herds: Group Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics | 319 | |
| A Futures Market Simulation with Non-Rational Participants | 325 | |
| Evolutionary Differentiation of Learning Abilities - A Case Study on Optimizing Parameter Values in Q-Learning by a Genetic Algorithm | 331 | |
| Exploring the Foundations of Artificial Societies: Experiments in Evolving Solutions to Iterated N-Player Prisoner's Dilemma | 337 | |
| Evolutionary Dynamics of Altruistic Behavior in Optional and Compulsory Versions of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma | 343 | |
| Evolving Cooperation in the Non-Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma: The Importance of Spatial Organization | 349 | |
| An Alternate Interpretation of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma and the Evolution of Non-Mutual Cooperation | 353 | |
| Asymmetric Mutations Due to Semiconservative DNA Replication: Double-Stranded DNA Type Genetic Algorithms | 359 | |
| Embryological Development on Silicon | 365 | |
| Development and Evolution of Hardware Behaviors | 371 | |
| Evolutionary Learning in the 2D Artificial Life System "Avida" | 377 | |
| Asynchrony Induces Stability in Cellular Automata Based Models | 382 | |
| Evolutionary Automata | 388 | |
| Non-Uniform Cellular Automata: Evolution in Rule Space and Formation of Complex Structures | 394 | |
| Evolutionary Robots: Our Hands in Their Brains? | 400 | |
| Universality Without Matter? | 406 | |
| Emergent Phenomena and Complexity | 411 | |
| Autonomy vs. Environmental Dependency in Neural Knowledge Representation | 417 | |
| Adiversity: Stepping Up Trophic Levels | 424 | |
| Artificial Culture | 430 | |
| Explorations in the Emergence of Morphology and Locomotion Behavior in Animated Characters | 436 | |
| An Instance of a Parasitic Replicator | 442 | |
| Author Index | 443 |
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Holly Puckette
reviewed Artificial life IV on November 02, 2014
Artificial life IV
ETA on completion: Chrissie, stoip saying you love the book. Explain why! Everything explained below remains true. Other books are emotionally captivating, intellectually interesting, filled with humor and sorrow, What is it that makes this one different for me? It is that this book has a message. It looks at people and life and it says loud and clear how stupid we human beings are and how wonderful too! Does that make sense to you? Do you see life that way too?
Read with:
Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey and Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 and Not Even My Name: A True Story.
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Few books have so emotionally moved me.
I know now that this book will get five stars, although I have only read about half.
Do not read this book, Listen to it. The narrator of the audiobook is John Lee. I bought the paperback. Then I went and bought the audiobook at Audible for two credits. I do not regret this splurge. This is a winner. I am not capable of separating the written book from the narration. As a whole it is simply ……perfect!
On an intellectual level it teaches. It teaches about life in a small village near Izmir, Turkey - which was called Smyrna when the novel takes place, in the early 1900s. The depiction of the village life, bustling with Greeks and Turks, Christians and Muslims teaches and amuses. There are Armenians too. So many different people and cultures and traditions - and they all blended and lived in harmony. Of course harmony scattered with village disputes and love affairs, pranks and numerous other everyday normal experiences. On the intellectual level you also learn about Attaturk. You learn about the battles of World War I. You do not just learn. You are in the trenches along with the men.
How dry this could all be. But you see this book is never dry. Each village character and even Attaturk becomes a close comrade. This is because every sentence emotionally pulls you in. There is satirical humor. What humor! You will be laughing at the worst of the war scenes…… I feel almost embarrassed to admit this. This author makes you laugh at the most horrific, and then he grows serious and a profound observation is elucidated. Wonderful vocabulary! And now someone has died. I am in tears, I laugh and I cry and I think and I learn.
I am emotionally captivated time after time after time.
I worried that I would not keep track of the diverse characters. This is no problem. The same characters remain from start to end,
I have never read such a marvelous seduction scene. Never! I have never encountered in a book the childish fright a young girl feels with her first bleeding, followed by the delightful discovery of womanhood. I have never so physically felt myself in the trenches at war. Horror and irony and laughter and profound philosophizing are all there in one scene. What writing! What narrating! Please listen to this book. If you have never tried audiobooks, start right here. You will be hooked. I am still a baby with audiobooks. This is a whole new world opening up to me. I want to share the experience with you. Please, listen to this book. If the audio format is inaccessible, OK, then read it.!
There is not one thing I can criticize in this book.
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