Jari VAARIO
Artificial Life Primer
Abstract:This paper gives a short overview of Artificial Life research. The paper answers the questions of how Artificial Life started, how far we have gone, and where we are heading. The paper emphasizes the emergence process and the dynamic embodiment with the environment as the new concepts introduced by Artificial Life. In the paper the major research works in Artificial Life are introduced by categorizing them into wetware synthesis, software synthesis, hardware synthesis and philosophical issues.