Essays Tagged: "Artificial life"

The Cost of Artificial Life

dvancements continue at their current torrid pace. If these advancements cross the line of creating artificial life, the essence of life will diminish and the survival of the human race will be threat ... diminish and the survival of the human race will be threatened.In Blade Runner, mankind has created artificial life that is so human like, it is impossible to differentiate between the two without per ...

(4 pages) 47 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

"The Death of Ivan Ilyich".

nveloped in the greed of perfection the average person often loses sight of what's important. These artificial elements associated with success range from a promotion to an obsession with wealth.Ivan ... or.From the outset of the novel it is clear that Tolstoy believes there are two types of lives: the artificial life--represented by Ivan, Praskovya, Peter, and most everyone in Ivan's society and comp ...

(3 pages) 65 0 2.3 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Artificial Life

1.0 Introduction Artificial life has been an area of extensive scientific research and interest since the 1980's. Art ... ere are several different sub fields to alife that will be explained in this paper. When the words "artificial life"� are spoken to someone who does not have knowledge in the area thoughts of i ... in the area thoughts of intelligent robots and smart computers come to mind. These are examples of artificial intelligence, which should not be confused with artificial life. Artificial life occurs o ...

(11 pages) 33 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Overpopulation

verpopulation of earth. I can't see the Earth as naturally supporting this amount of people. We are artificially supporting ourselves; we tear down rainforests and set up even more fields for food. Th ... hrough the birth canal. So my mother had a caesarian section. But this is part of natural life. Not artificial life as we have it. A child born with such a severe disability that he will never develop ...

(2 pages) 16 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy