What Does Artificial Life Tell Us About Death?

Every evil leaves a sorrow in the memory, until the supreme evil, death, wipes out all memories together with all life. In particular: Much of current ethics is based on the sanctity of human life. Research in articial life will affect our understanding of life and death (...) This, like the theory of evolution, will have major social consequences for human cultural practices such as religion. Throughout history there have been several explanations to both life and death, and it seems unfeasible that a consensus will be reached. Thus, we are faced with multiple notions of life, which imply different notions of death.