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Creation

Life and How to Make It

by Steve Grand

Recommended by Jeff Bezos and Peter Rex

Recommended by Jeff Bezos and Peter Rex

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Technology, and Business.

Working mostly alone, almost singlehandedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures(R), a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systemscreatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously...

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17/ Creation. @enchantedloom shows how complex emergent systems are not simply the product of their components, but something new and higher. Thoughtprovoking for anyone seeking to help create such systems. @Harvard_Press
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