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Artificial Life
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Site Name
Artificial Life
Description
A community for anyone interested in Artificial Life, the cross-disciplinary study of life and its abstract processes, distinct from but cross-informed by the specific instance of life that is studied as Biology.
Topics
Topics covered would include:
- Soft artificial life (software experiments)
- Hard artificial life (hardware experiments)
- Wet artificial life (biochemistry experiments)
The lines between these can be blurred, and some questions may overlap with more than one of them.
Exclusions
These topics or types of posts would be out of scope:
- To be determined by Meta discussion.
Special Features
Subject to discussion, I can imagine:
- Q&A
- Blog posts (articles about specific topics).
- Challenges (either to create an artificial life system meeting certain constraints, or to achieve something specific in a pre-existing artificial life system).
- Gallery (a place to say "look what I found / made / heard about" to keep this out of the Q&A).
Overlaps
- If there is a Biology community in future there may be some overlap, but I would expect the same question on both communities to have very different answers, and probably to have very different expectations (the same person may ask the same question in both communities fully expecting very different answers).
- Questions about wet artificial life (artificial biochemistry) may also be on topic in a future Chemistry community.
- Questions about hard artificial life (artificial life physically embodied in hardware) may sometimes overlap with the existing Electrical Engineering community.
- Questions about soft artificial life (artificial life in software - confined to virtual environments) may sometimes overlap with the existing Software Development and Mathematics communities.
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