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- catalog abstract ""Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures, a revolutionary 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 on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? And in this book--a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlooker to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverick--Steve Grand proposes an answer."--Book cover.".
- catalog contributor b12240089.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures, a revolutionary 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 on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? And in this book--a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlooker to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverick--Steve Grand proposes an answer."--Book cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-220) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Latter-day Frankenstein -- Failing the test -- Lies, damned lies and linguistics -- Guide to the intangible -- Levels of being and the general scheme of things -- Importance of being emergent -- Looking-glass worlds -- They call me Legion; for I am many -- On the balance of nature -- God's lego set -- Whole iguana -- Igor, hand me that screwdriver ... -- I am Ron's brain -- Three parts gin to one of vermouth -- Taking over the world -- Vapourware.".
- catalog extent "x, 230 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Creation.".
- catalog identifier "0674006542 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Creation.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Creation.".
- catalog subject "570/.1/13 21".
- catalog subject "Artificial intelligence.".
- catalog subject "Artificial life.".
- catalog subject "Biological systems Computer simulation.".
- catalog subject "QH324.2 .G73 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Latter-day Frankenstein -- Failing the test -- Lies, damned lies and linguistics -- Guide to the intangible -- Levels of being and the general scheme of things -- Importance of being emergent -- Looking-glass worlds -- They call me Legion; for I am many -- On the balance of nature -- God's lego set -- Whole iguana -- Igor, hand me that screwdriver ... -- I am Ron's brain -- Three parts gin to one of vermouth -- Taking over the world -- Vapourware.".
- catalog title "Creation : life and how to make it / Steve Grand.".
- catalog type "text".