Negotiating boundaries in the definition of life: Wittgensteinian and Darwinian insights on resolving conceptual border conflicts.

What is the definition of life? Artificial life environments provide an interesting test case for this classical question. Understanding what such systems can tell us about biological life requires negotiating the tricky conceptual boundary between virtual and real life forms. Drawing from Wittgenst...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 185; no. 1; pp. 5 - 21
Autor principal: Pennock, Robert
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Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2012
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