This article aims to show that linguistics, in particular the study of the lexico-syntactic aspects of language, provides fertile ground for artificial life modeling. A survey of the models that have been developed over the last decade and a half is presented to demonstrate that ALife techniques have a lot to offer an explanatory theory of language. It is argued that this is because much of the...

We develop a quantum information protocol that models the biological behaviours of individuals living in a natural selection scenario. The artificially engineered evolution of the quantum living units shows the fundamental features of life in a common environment, such as self-replication, mutation, interaction of individuals, and death. We propose how to mimic these bio-inspired features in a ...

Abstract The right to life is fundamental and primary a precondition for exercising other rights (Ramcharan in Ramcharan (ed), International Law, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, 1985). Its universal recognition the arena of international law associated with concept human being endowed inherent inalienable dignity. Categorization circle entities covered today seems obvious indisputable. ...

The ability to genetically breed computer programs is a relatively new approach to problem solving. Recent advances in parallel processing have provided platforms to eeciently carry out this type of computation. In this paper we describe a genetically optimized artiicial lifeform. The goal of this work is to breed swarms of artiicial organisms that can move over corrupted bitmapped images and c...

In these notes we survey applications of L-systems to the modeling of plants, with an emphasis on the results obtained since the comprehensive presentation of this area in The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants [61]. The new developments include: a better understanding of theoretical issues pertinent to graphical applications of Lsystems, extensions to programming techniques based on L-systems, and a...

The classical work of bird-like objects (or boids) of Reynolds [1] simulates polarized motion of groups of oriented particles, bird-like objects, or shortly boids. To do this, three steers are introduced. Cohesion is the tendency of boids to stay in the center of the flock, alignment smoothes their velocities to similar values, and separation helps them to avoid mutual collisions. If no externa...

This text introduces the twin deadlocks of strong artificial life. Conceptualization of life is a deadlock both because of the existence of a continuum between the inert and the living, and because we only know one instance of life. Computationalism is a second deadlock since it remains a matter of faith. Nevertheless, artificial life realizations quickly progress and recent constructions embed...

The announcement of "Artificial Life" by the Craig Venter group, and the media stir that arose from the news, provoked thoughts about the current technologies in contemporary science and the cultural tension of such projections on the media. The increasingly blurred boundaries between specialist and generalist media, while promising a wider appreciation of scientific discovery, potentially allo...