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Langton关于《人工生命》的官方会议公告是对这个之前几乎不存在的领域最早的描述<ref>Langton, C.G. (1989) "Artificial Life", in ''Artificial Life'', Langton (ed), (Addison-Wesley:Reading, MA) page 1.</ref>：
Langton关于《人工生命》的官方会议公告是对这个之前几乎不存在的领域最早的描述<ref>Langton, C.G. (1989) "Artificial Life", in ''Artificial Life'', Langton (ed), (Addison-Wesley:Reading, MA) page 1.</ref>：
<blockquote>''Artificial life is the study of artificial systems that exhibit behavior characteristic of natural living systems. It is the quest to explain life in any of its possible manifestations, without restriction to the particular examples that have evolved on earth. This includes biological and chemical experiments, computer simulations, and purely theoretical endeavors. Processes occurring on molecular, social, and evolutionary scales are subject to investigation. The ultimate goal is to extract the logical form of living systems.（人工生命是对具有自然生命系统行为特征的人工系统的研究。它寻求解释生命的任何可能表现形式，而不局限于地球上已经演化出来的特殊例子。这包括生物和化学实验、计算机模拟和纯理论研究。发生在分子、社会和进化尺度上的过程需要进行研究。最终目标是提取出生命系统的逻辑形式。）''</blockquote>
<blockquote>''Microelectronic technology and genetic engineering will soon give us the capability to create new life forms in silico as well as in vitro. This capacity will present humanity with the most far-reaching technical, theoretical and ethical challenges it has ever confronted. The time seems appropriate for a gathering of those involved in attempts to simulate or synthesize aspects of living systems.（微电子技术和基因工程将很快使我们有能力在硅片中和在体外创造新的生命形式。这种能力将给人类带来有史以来最深远的技术、理论和伦理挑战。对于那些试图模拟或合成生命系统各方面的人来说，现在似乎是合适的时机。）''</blockquote>
<blockquote>''Microelectronic technology and genetic engineering will soon give us the capability to create new life forms in silico as well as in vitro. This capacity will present humanity with the most far-reaching technical, theoretical and ethical challenges it has ever confronted. The time seems appropriate for a gathering of those involved in attempts to simulate or synthesize aspects of living systems.</blockquote>