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Quiz 2. Discover , Feb 2005 If you want to find alien life-forms, you may only need to catch a plane to East Lansing, Michigan. The aliens of East Lansing are not made of carbon and water. They have no DNA. These are digital organisms – {!} strings of commands

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Quiz 2

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  1. Quiz 2

  2. Discover,Feb 2005 If you want to find alien life-forms, you may only need to catch a plane to East Lansing, Michigan.The aliens of East Lansing are not made of carbon and water. They have no DNA. These are digital organisms – {!} strings of commands - akin to computer viruses. “I have recently begun new research on the evolution of artificial life, in the form of self-replicating computer programs that mutate at random, compete for CPU time, and thereby adapt by natural selection to become faster and more efficient replicators.” Quiz 2 Are “digital organisms” alive? Justify your answer in terms of the properties and definitions of life presented in the lecture and text.

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