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The jacket on Emmeche's volume describes it as "a popular-science book" and "a wide-ranging survey" on artificial life (ALife), and thus invites comparison with Steven Levy's classic "Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation" New York: Pantheon, 1992 or Kevin Kelly's avant-garde "Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization" Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1994. In fact, it is technically less detailed than either of these works, offers almost none of the historical background that they provide, and does not share their posture of unabashed enthusiasm for the field. Instead, it seeks to characterize ALife philosophically, and to understand the relation between ALife and biology, the discipline in which its author is a recognized Danish researcher. The book is a translation from a Danish original, and tends to focus attention on European work in both science and philosophy. Readers who want a high-level technical overview of the field will be better served by Levy or Kelly. Emmeche is likely to be of more interest among researchers with some experience in ALife, where he can be expected to stir up controversy and challenge accepted ideas.

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Book review: The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life by Claus Emmeche (Princeton University Press, 1994)

Reviewer-Van Dyke Parunak, H.
ACM SIGART Bulletin , Volume 6 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jul 1, 1995

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