2014/10/10 by Wendy Aguilar, Guillermo SantamarÃa-Bonfil, Tom Froese +1 · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · Computer Science · #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Origins and Evolution of Life #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
paper · pdf · doi:10.3389/frobt.2014.00008
openalex publication_date 2014/10/10 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
For millennia people have wondered what makes the living different from the non-living. Beginning in the mid-1980s, artificial life has studied living systems using a synthetic approach: build life in order to understand it better, be it by means of software, hardware, or wetware. This review provides a summary of the advances that led to the development of artificial life, its current research topics, and open problems and opportunities. We classify artificial life research into fourteen themes: origins of life, autonomy, self-organization, adaptation (including evolution, development, and learning), ecology, artificial societies, behavior, computational biology, artificial chemistries, information, living technology, art, and philosophy. Being interdisciplinary, artificial life seems to be losing its boundaries and merging with other fields.