Four puzzles about life

Artificial Life

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 125-140

  Bedau, Mark A ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Definition of life; Supple adaptation; Theory of life

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN; LIFE; THINKING;

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN; LIFE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THINKING;

EID: 0242290465     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454698568486     Document Type: Article

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