"Biological systems are dynamical, not easily predicted, and are creative in many ways... In the old equilibrium world…"

"A system in which a few things interacting produce tremendously divergent behavior; deterministic chaos; it looks ran…"

"You can see these two species coexisting in a long period of stability; then on of the them drops out and all hell br…"

"There's a reason for poetry... Poetry is a very nonlinear use of language, where the meaning is more than just the su…"

"Artificial Life [AL] is the study of man-made systems that exhibit behaviors characteristic of natural living systems…"

"Biology is the scientific study of life - in principle, anyway. In practice, biology is the scientific study of life …"

"[AL] views life as a property of the organization of matter, rather than a property of the matter which is so organiz…"

"It starts at the bottom, viewing an organism as a large population of simple machines, and works upwards syntheticall…"

"Artificial Life is concerned with tuning the behaviors of such low-level machines that the behavior that emerges at t…"

"The principle assumption made in Artificial Life is that the 'logical form' of an organism can be separated from its …"