Artificial Life is the study of all phenomena of the living world through their reproduction in artificial systems. We argue that Artificial Life models of evolution and development offer a new set of theoretical and methodological tools for investigating Piaget's ideas. The concept of an Artificial Life Neural Network (ALNN) is first introduced, and contrasted with the study of other recent ap...

The notion of artificial life can take many diverse forms, and in this article we will focus on three aspects: modelling the development of structure in living systems, the quest to create artificial intelligence, and the emerging field of synthetic biology. All three topics reveal surprising, and sometimes remarkably deep, connections between the apparently disparate disciplines of biology and...

Contemporary artificial life (also known as “ALife”) is an interdisciplinary study of life and life-like processes. Its two most important qualities are that it focuses on the essential rather than the contingent features of living systems and that it attempts to understand living systems by artificially synthesizing extremely simple forms of them. These two qualities are connected. By synthesi...

We propose a novel approach to self-regenerating continuously-operating systems. Such systems provide best-case solutions in security surveillance or decision making centers. We introduce HADES, a self-regenerating system whose agents acknowledge their “citizenship” or faithfulness to the good of the system and are able to monitor their environment. When agents of HADES find irregularity in the...

It is often heard in Artificial Life (A-Life) circles that contemporary biology studies life-as-we-know-it (an Earth based, carbon chain phenomenon), whereas A-Life takes as its domain of study life-as-it-could-be. But lacking a clear definition of “life” the question arises: how would we recognize life-as-it-could-be, if we managed to create it? This short paper offers some speculations on thi...

• Traditional AI focuses on higher-order cognitive activity like expert problem solving. • Subgroup stress embodied intelligence artificial life (also Bottom-Up AI, Animat approach, Behavior-based AI, Animal Robotics). • Aim of paper: review the approach and identify major unresolved issues. Delineating the field: The Subject Matter • The study of behavior. • Focus: what makes behavior intellig...