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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

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John Henry Holland

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

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Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

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If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.

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If there is to be a competition, there must be some basis for resolving it. It is also clear that the competition should be experienced based.

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Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

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Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.

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