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Advances in Artificial Life - 6th European Conference, ECAL 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-14, 2001. Proceedings (Paperback, 2001 ed.)
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Advances in Artificial Life - 6th European Conference, ECAL 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-14, 2001. Proceedings (Paperback, 2001 ed.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2159
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Why is the question of the di?erence between living and non-living
matter - tellectually so attractive to the man of the West? Where
are our dreams about our own ability to understand this di?erence
and to overcome it using the ?rmly established technologies rooted?
Where are, for instance, the cultural roots of the enterprises
covered nowadays by the discipline of Arti?cial Life? Cont- plating
such questions, one of us has recognized [6] the existence of the
eternal dream of the man of the West expressed, for example, in the
Old Testament as follows: . . . the Lord God formed the man from
the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life, and the man became a living being (Genesis, 2. 7). This is
the dream about the workmanlike act of the creation of Adam from
clay, about the creation of life from something non-living, and the
con?dence in the magic power of technologies. How has this dream
developed and been converted into a reality, and how does it
determine our present-day activities in science and technology?
What is this con?dence rooted in? Then God said: "Let us make man
in our image. . . " (Genesis, 1. 26). Man believes in his own
ability to repeat the Creator's acts, to change ideas into real
things, because he believes he is godlike. This con?dence is -
using the trendy Dawkins' term - perhaps the most important
cultural meme of the West.
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