Introduction to Artificial Life for People who Like AI

Artificial Life, often shortened as ALife. What is your first thought when reading those words? For me and hundreds of ALifers, ALife is the bottom-up scientific study of the fundamental principles of life. Just as Artificial Intelligence researchers ponder the nature of intelligence by trying to build intelligent systems from scratch, ALife researchers investigate the nature of "life" by trying to build living systems from scratch. "Life as it could be."