Creation: Life and How to Make It
by Steve Grand · 2000
Buy on Amazon"Working mostly alone, almost singlehandedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems - creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? And in this book - a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlookers to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverick - Steve Grand proposes an answer.".…
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"This book on artificial life and emergent systems aligns with Jeff Bezos's long-standing interest in complex adaptive systems and how simple rules can lead to sophisticated outcomes, a concept relevant to Amazon's growth."
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