- Born
- 1948
- Country
- United States
- Field
- computer scientist
- In the library
- 1 work, named in 4 passages elsewhere
- Facts from
- Wikidata · Wikipedia · Open Library
The artificial life motto
Levin calls 'life as it can be' Langton's motto for the artificial life community1. He uses it as the sister concept for 'mind-as-it-can-be', a framework for comparing very different kinds of intelligence whatever their composition or origin2. The passages quote the motto and cite the overview. They do not describe Langton's own experiments or arguments in any detail.
Use in Levin's 2019 paper
In a 2019 paper Levin cites Langton (1995) together with Walker and Davies (2013). He asks whether Scale Free Cognition will prove a useful way to organize what is known about the mechanisms and algorithms of life and life-as-it-could be3. He also ties Langton's theme to the problem of boundaries. Deciding what part of a complex biosphere counts as one individual is, he writes, an important problem for research in Life as it Could Be4. Finding a system's functional set points bears on this and on open questions in exobiology and artificial life5.
a sister concept to Langton’s motto for the artificial life community—“life as it can be”) (Langton, 1995)
Levin M, 2022 · Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework… · open at passage 23specific conceptual tools that have been developed to begin the task of understanding embodied cognition in the space of mind-as-it-can-be
Levin M, 2022 · Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework… · open at passage 23Future empirical work will reveal whether Scale Free Cognition is a useful way to organize what we know about the mechanisms and algorithms of life and life-as-it-could be (Langton, 1995; Walker and Davies, 2013).
Levin M, 2019 · The Computational Boundary of a "Self": Developmental Bioelectricity Drives… · open at passage 73it is an important potential problem to be encountered in research in Life as it Could Be (Langton, 1995).
Levin M, 2019 · The Computational Boundary of a "Self": Developmental Bioelectricity Drives… · open at passage 85Ascertaining the functional set points (goals) of a given system has implications for open questions in exobiology and artificial life.
Levin M, 2019 · The Computational Boundary of a "Self": Developmental Bioelectricity Drives… · open at passage 85
