Artificial Natural

How natural and artificial! This is the reaction to the perennial question of the relation of human life to nature’s creation that provides an important topic for discussions. In terms of biology, it is the scientific study of life and it is simple the only kind of life that has been available to study and question. Without other examples, it is difficult to distinguish essential properties of life that would be shared by any other living.

Moreover, our only option is to try to create alternative life forms ourselves and that is the artificial life that literally refers to as “life made by Man rather than by Nature itself”. It is the name that gives out a new discipline by attempting to recreate biological phenomena from scratch within the use of computers and other “artificial” media. The process of combining and composing ideas to form a theory or system has been an extremely important tool in many disciplines.

With great practice more on artificial life in an attempt to recreate another alternative ways or media will result in not only theoretical understanding but also in the technology of computer hardware and software, mobile robots, spacecraft, medicine and other vital engineering or sustainability projects that gives a big impact to the environment and the life on Earth. By extending the horizons based on this topic, it is within this vastly larger domain in which we will discover practical and useful implication in approaching towards sustainability and the design practice.

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