Saturday, 17 November 2007

lecture six notes

The Body, The Mind and The Computer: ALife, AI, Cyborgs etc.
*What is life? 1. the period between brith and death, the experience or state of being alive.2. life is the quality which makes people, animals and plants different from objects, substances and things which are dead.3. life is everything which is alive. For people, DNA make up the human genome. People have the living systems. DNA is the code of life.
*ALife: Artificial Life
ALife is the study of systems related to life. Artificial life, or a-life, is devoted to the creation and study of lifelike organisms and systems built by humans.
*AI: Artificial Intelligence
*Hive Mind: networks and neural nets
Hive is highly intelligent and capable of learning about its environment.

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