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Artificial Life - Sugarscape

Artificial Life - Sugarscape. By Dan Miller. What is meant by being alive?. You breathe air? You act independently? Being alive is essentially a matter of patterns and processes. Artificial Life.

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Artificial Life - Sugarscape

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  1. Artificial Life - Sugarscape By Dan Miller

  2. What is meant by being alive? • You breathe air? • You act independently? • Being alive is essentially a matter of patterns and processes

  3. Artificial Life • AL researchers look for the distinctive behaviors of living things, and try to create software simulations, that perform these behaviors without being told what to do.

  4. Creating a Simulation • First of all the AL researchers need to create an environment for the species to live • They need individuals populate it • Each individual is built to act independently • Rules are needed for them to follow

  5. Question? • Do you think humans are to sophisticated to be represented by a computer model? • Not really, we spend a lot of time obey rules, rules which can be translated into if-then statements.

  6. Sugarscape -Environment

  7. Sugarscape- Rules • Each agent needs so much sugar to live • metabollic rates may vary between agents • vision and movement rates may vary between agents. • Agents act independently

  8. Additional Rules that can be added • Combat • Storing excess sugar • Trade - using two different substances • Reproduction • Disease • Inheritence

  9. Simulations • By adding new rules the scientists hope to discover the evolution of societies in the history of the human race.

  10. Simulations • http://www.discovery.com/area/science/life/digitalplayroom.html

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