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Book Title
Silicon Second Nature : Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World, Updated with a New Preface
Publication Name
Silicon Second Nature
Title
Silicon Second Nature
Subtitle
Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World, Updated With a New
Author
Stefan Helmreich
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0520208005
EAN
9780520208001
ISBN
9780520208001
Publisher
University of California Press
Genre
Science, Literary Collections
Topic
Medieval, General
Release Year
2000
Release Date
29/08/2000
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1in
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Publication Year
2000
Features
Revised
Number of Pages
330 Pages

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Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs--such as computer viruses--as new forms of life. Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich's look at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life--primarily at the Santa Fe Institute, a well-known center for studies in the sciences of complexity--introduces readers to the people and programs connected with this unusual hybrid of computer science and biology. When biology becomes an information science, when DNA is downloaded into virtual reality, new ways of imagining "life" become possible. Through detailed dissections of the artifacts of Artifical Life, Helmreich explores how these novel visions of life are recombining with the most traditional tales told by Western culture. Because Artificial Life scientists tend to see themselves as masculine gods of their cyberspace creations, as digital Darwins exploring frontiers filled with primitive creatures, their programs reflect prevalent representations of gender, kinship, and race, and repeat origin stories most familiar from mythical and religious narratives. But Artificial Life does not, Helmreich says, simply reproduce old stories in new software. Much like contemporary activities of cloning, cryonics, and transgenics, the practice of simulating and synthesizing life in silico challenges and multiplies the very definition of vitality. Are these models, as some would claim, actually another form of the real thing? Silicon Second Nature takes Artifical Life as a symptom and source of our mutating visions of life itself.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520208005
ISBN-13
9780520208001
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1683369

Product Key Features

Book Title
Silicon Second Nature : Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World, Updated with a New Preface
Author
Stefan Helmreich
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Medieval, General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Science, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
330 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
98-19393
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Edition Number
2
Table of Content
Preface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction I Simulation in Santa Fe 2 The Word for World Is Computer 3 Inside and Outside the Looking-Glass Worlds of Artificial Life 4 Concerning the Spiritual in Artificial Life 5 Artificial Life in a Worldwide Web Coda Notes References IndexX
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-019393
Dewey Decimal
570/.1/13
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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