The meaning of 'life'.
The article reports that scientists are switching from the chemistry set to the computer to understand the origin of life. For several years, people have been playing with "artificial life" in the silicon world of computers' central processing units. These life forms are computer programs which mimi...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 322; no. 7740; pp. 73 - 76 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
1/4/92
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