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Contents 1 Question 1.1 Projected Date of Recording 1.2 Contributors 1.3 Participants 2 Discussion Layout 3 External Links 4 Recording Notes 4.1 Final Audio Link

Question

Could artificial life be a science? Should it be?

Projected Date of Recording

Still in discussion, see Podcast Dates.

Contributors

Jeffrey Ventrella

Tom Barbalet

Gerald de Jong

Dave Kerr

Participants

Tom Barbalet - recorder and occasional muser

Discussion Layout

What is science?

What are the practical advantages of artificial life becoming a science?

What are the practical disadvantages of artificial life becoming a science?

What are the other options - social science, art or pseudo science?

Can artificial life be divided into application and theory?

Could artificial life develop into a science?

Could the sciences that benefit from artificial life adopted it?

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Is alife more a scientific or artistic endeavour?

If it is science, what might be a falsifiable hypothesis?

If it is art, what might it be expressing?

External Links

TBD

Recording Notes

TBD

Final Audio Link

TBD