Reviews for Explorations in the Complexity of Possible Life: Abstracting and Synthesizing the Principles of Living Systems

The average rating for Explorations in the Complexity of Possible Life: Abstracting and Synthesizing the Principles of Living Systems based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-10 00:00:00 Brent Tripet Oh am I fucking psyched to read this. (revisited 6/5: this is so totally bad ass. Tasty, bite-sized essays interestingly thematized. Sort of blew my undergrads' minds. Mine too to a degree).

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-11 00:00:00 Johnny Maneri This is a hard and unforgiving text to read. It is for other scientists and philosophers in the field. If you do not have someone walking you through it, this book is challenging. Luckily for me, I had just that for this course. I have always found artificial intelligence fascinating, and now I have questions of artificial life bouncing around my head as well. Because this is such a new topic of professional discourse, I'm not sure where else to look for more like-minded reading. However, my professor on this subject wrote a great article called "The Ethics of Robot Servitude" (His name is Steve Petersen.)