The Development of Artificial Life and Its Relationship with Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Artificial life (also known as AL) is an interdisciplinary study of life-like processes that applies the synthetic methodology instead of analysis methodology to observe the living process of living systems in the artificial environment and make the essential property of emergent behaviors clear. Meanwhile, artificial life is also a field of living system research which is jointly associated with biology, life science, computer science, and philosophy. In addition, the nature of artificial life is not only established on the study of “life-as-we-know-it”, but also that of “life-as-it-might-be”. In that, the fundamental property of natural living systems can be effectively discovered by the comprehensive process based on “life-as-it-might-be”. Moreover, the study of artificial life cannot only bring the contribution to explain the living behaviours and explore the origin of life, but it also provides a new approach to biological research.