Creation

Life and How to Make It

Steve Grand

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction: A latter-day Frankenstein

    1. Failing the test

    2. Lies, damned lies and linguistics

    3. A guide to the intangible

    4. Levels of being and the general scheme of things

    5. The importance of being emergent

    6. Looking-glass worlds

    7. They call me Legion; for I am many

    8. On the balance of nature

    9. God's Lego set

    10. The whole iguana

    11. Igor, hand me that screwdriver...

    12. I am Ron's brain

    13. Three parts gin to one of vermouth

    14. Taking over the world

    15. Vapourware

    Bibliography

    Index

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Steve Grand is co-founder and former director of technology at Creature Labs, a firm based in the United Kingdom. He has written and lectured widely on the topic of artificial life and was nominated by the Sunday Times (of London) as one of "The Brains behind the 21st Century." His latest research objective is to build the world's first conscious machine.