Artificial-life programmer claims that, with the help of the increasingly advanced technology, they will soon go beyond merely modeling or simulating living organisms and actually create life. The claim is not simply that one could design an artificial life with the help of a computer, and then build it out of organic molecules. They claim that one could create living organism simply by programming a computer in a right way. If today's virus is not alive, tomorrows will be. Computer equivalent of worm, frog would soon be rampaging in the networks. This claim is known as "strong A-life", as opposed to “weak A-life".
Foes of “strong-A-life” argue that no matter how advance computer technology would become, life cannot be created simply by programming a computer. They put forward the arguments:
- A computer generated life is not a material object.
- It can not move about
- It is not capable of dying
- Same individual but have different life span on different machines.
A computer generated life is not a material object. When one talks about living organism, it is a kind of material object, something that takes up space and has a mass, a chemical composition, and other physical properties. Material objects are something that satisfies most proposed definitions of life: they take in matter, utilize its energy, and expel its remains in a less ordered form; they have well-defined boundaries; they can reproduce themselves with great accuracy; and so on. On the contrary computer generated life forms do not satisfy these definitions of life.
“Genetic algorithms are inspired by Darwin's theory of evolution. Solution to a problem solved by genetic algorithms uses an evolutionary process (it is evolved). Genetic algorithms were formally introduced in the United States in the 1970s by John Holland at University of Michigan...........
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