Others look at ALife as a tool that could potentially be applied across many disciplines, in much the same way as statistics. According to this view, ALife is merely a convenient label for the use of a number of computational modelling techniques. The debate has been organized by Seth Bullock , Ezequiel Di Paolo , and Jason Noble . If you would like to register your interest in the debate, and especially if you want to suggest particular points for discussion, please feel free to contact us . These contributors represent a range of disciplines and approaches to artificial life.
Abstracts are available summarizing each panelist's planned contribution.
General discussion We are organizing this debate because we feel that there has not been enough attention paid to ALife's scientific status, either verbally or in print. However, there are some papers that may be of interest to anyone wishing to learn more about the issue. Last modified September 1999.