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Book Review: Another Science Is Possible

Book Review: A New Kind of Science

“Somebody says, ‘You know, you people always say that space is continuous. How do you know when you get to a small enough dimension that there really are enough points in between, that it isn’t just a lot of dots separated by little distances?’ Or they say, ‘You know those quantum mechanical amplitudes you told me about, they’re so complicated and absurd, what makes you think those are right? M...

Book Review: Biophilic design: The theory, science and practice of bringing buildings to life.

Well, someone can decide by themselves what they want to do and need to do but sometimes, that kind of person will need some biophilic design the theory science and practice of bringing buildings to life references. People with open minded will always try to seek for the new things and information from many sources. On the contrary, people with closed mind will always think that they can do it ...

Book Review: “Introduction to Artificial Life”

Despite the popularity of artificial life over the last 15 years or so, as witnessed by the establishment of several international conferences on the subject and the birth of the Artificial Life Journal and similar publications, there has been a conspicuous lack of decent introductory texts on the subject. Notable exceptions include “Artificial Life: An Introduction” (Langton 1995), an eclectic...