--- abstract: |- The topic is fascinating and the volume thought-provoking. It leaves one eager to hear who will ultimately win in this game of reverse-engineering life: the computationalists, the roboticists or the naturalists. altloc: - http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad97.thes.alife.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: Book review of M. Boden (ed.) "The Philosophy of Artificial Life." Blackwell confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Harnad given: Stevan honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1997-01 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-06-19 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/16/06 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1606 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/1606/1/harnad97.thes.alife.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: "artificial life, computation, robotics, virtual worlds\n" lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:42 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Times Higher Education Supplement publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:38:59 subjects: - cog-psy - comp-sci-art-intel - comp-sci-robot succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Lively Flights of Fancy type: newsarticle userid: 63 volume: ~