This paper presents information flow model and a novel artificial life grid model to construct artificial life computer ecosystem environment. The life grid model is a three-dimensional information space: (time, artificial life node, and location). The former two dimensions identify the contents or function of artificial life systems, and the third-dimension identifies the location where an art...

abstract eating and drinking are essential for life. there are clinical situations that artificial hydration is necessary. for dying patients artificial hydration looks useless and in many conditions could even be harmful (e.g. pulmonary edema in hypoalbuminemic patients). in our medical culture artificial hydration is a symbol of care to the patient and withholding it, is a very emotive issue,...

In 2010, the Venter lab announced that it had created the first bacterium with an entirely synthetic genome. This was reported to be the first instance of 'artificial life,' and in the ethical and policy discussions that followed it was widely assumed that the creation of artificial life is in itself morally significant. We cast doubt on this assumption. First we offer an account of the creatio...

The authors explore how current mainstream data-driven AI approaches can be questioned critically from a perspective of computational creativity and ecosystemic art. This centres on critique the future as being over-determined by past; both data used, in questions or objectives assumed training. The main contributions this paper are to apply alternative creativ...