ALife Lab at Rince [Home]

Director: Prof. Barry McMullin


28 June 2010: The ALife Lab is a partner in new collaborative European project, EvoSym: Emergence and evolution of biological symbol systems. This is supported under the Complexity-NET (European Network for the Coordination of Complexity Research and Training Activities) funding scheme (Interdisciplinary Challenges for Complexity Science, 2009 pilot call).
Photo: K. R. Popper

... I do not really believe that we shall succeed in creating life artificially; but after having reached the moon and landed a spaceship or two on Mars, I realize that this disbelief of mine means very little. But computers are totally different from brains, whose function is not primarily to compute but to guide and balance an organism and help it to stay alive. It is for this reason that the first step of nature toward an intelligent mind was the creation of life, and I think that should we artificially create an intelligent mind, we would have to follow the same path.

Karl Popper (Popper & Eccles, 1983)