[SunkenCiv]

Excerpt is boring, but the article is so-so. :') A more pertinent quote for the list:

Many evolutionary biologists and paleontologists believe that the fossil evidence available to us suggests natural evolution proceeds in fits and starts. But many of them have assumed that external catastrophes, such as asteroid impacts and climate changes, were responsible. In artificial life, these fits and starts seem to be inevitable--but still puzzling-- consequences of the general features of evolution. Artificial life also seems to say to us that there is a natural propensity for evolving systems- -be they biospheres or cyberspheres--toward more complexity and organization.

"Maybe the universe is a hologram." -- Pribram

[ckilmer]

the trouble with the law of entropy as applied to living things is that we live in a world that constanly has more energy added to it from the sun.

[johnny7]

I prefer to think of it as... organized-chaos...