Advances in Artificial Life 6th European Conference, ECAL 2001 Pragu
Why is the question of the di?erence between living and non-living matter - tellectually so attractive to the man of the West? Where are our dreams about our own ability to understand this di?erence and to overcome it using the ?rmly established technolog
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen
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Jozef Kelemen Petr Sos´ık (Eds.)
Advances in Artificial Life 6th European Conference, ECAL 2001 Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-14, 2001 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Jozef Kelemen Petr Sos´ık Silesian University, Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Computer Science 74601 Opava, Czech Republic E-mail: {petr.sosik/jozef.kelemen}@fpf.slu.cz
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Preface
Why is the question of the difference between living and non-living matter intellectually so attractive to the man of the West? Where are our dreams about our own ability to understand this difference and to overcome it using the firmly established technologies rooted? Where are, for instance, the cultural roots of the enterprises covered nowadays by the discipline of Artificial Life? Contemplating such questions, one of us has recognized [6] the existence of the eternal dream of the man of the West expressed, for example, in the Old Testament as follows: ... the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being (Genesis, 2.7). This is the dream about the workmanlike act of the creation of Adam from clay, about the creation of life from something non-living,
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