<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Artificial Life: Synthetic Versus Virtual"^^ . "Artificial life can take two forms: synthetic and virtual. In principle, the materials and properties of synthetic\nliving systems could differ radically from those of natural living systems yet still resemble them enough to be really alive if they\nare grounded in the relevant causal interactions with the real world. Virtual (purely computational) \"living\" systems, in contrast,\nare just ungrounded symbol systems that are systematically interpretable as if they were alive; in reality they are no more alive\nthan a virtual furnace is hot. Virtual systems are better viewed as \"symbolic oracles\" that can be used (interpreted) to predict and\nexplain real systems, but not to instantiate them. The vitalistic overinterpretation of virtual life is related to the animistic\noverinterpretation of virtual minds and is probably based on an implicit (and possibly erroneous) intuition that living things have\nactual or potential mental lives. "^^ . "1993" . . "16" . "593" . . "Reading, Mass.:Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program 1994."^^ . . . "Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "Stevan"^^ . "Harnad"^^ . "Stevan Harnad"^^ . . "Chris"^^ . "Langton"^^ . "Chris Langton"^^ . . . . . . "Artificial Life: Synthetic Versus Virtual (HTML)"^^ . . . "harnad93.artlife.html"^^ . . . "Artificial Life: Synthetic Versus Virtual (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #1587 \n\nArtificial Life: Synthetic Versus Virtual\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Artificial Intelligence" . . . "Robotics" . . . "Philosophy of Mind" . .