摘要
数字生命研究是新兴起的计算机与生物学交叉的前沿科学领域,主要是采取软件的形式在计算机中产生展示生命特征的人工生命实体。数字生命是虚拟实在的一种重要形式。“磁芯大战”、“Tierra世界”、Adida和“阿米巴世界”等是数字生命研究的几个重要模型。数字生命研究向我们提出了一系列哲学问题,其中主要有:数字生命是真实的生命或将成为真实的生命吗?数字生命世界与现实世界在本体论上等价吗?我们对制造数字生命承担伦理和法律责任吗?
Digital life is an important form of virtual reality in that software technology is applied to create artificial entities which exhibit the characteristics of life in computer. The study of digital life is a frontier area of science where interdisciplinary study occurs between computer science and biology. There are some models of the research in digital life, such as Core War, Tierra, Avida and Amoeba world. Based on these models, some of the philosophical implications of these researches, such as whether digital life is real life, whether virtual reality has the same ontological status as real world, and whether we have ethical responsibility for creating digital life, are discussed in this article.
出处
《山东科技大学学报（社会科学版）》
2006年第3期1-6,共6页
Journal of Shandong University of Science and Technology(Social Sciences)
基金
本文受教育部哲学社会科学研究重大课题攻关项目(当代科学哲学的发展趋势研究)资助(04JZD0004)
关键词
数字生命
计算机科学
人工生命
生命的本质
虚拟实在
伦理责任
digital life
computer science
artificial life
nature of life
virtual reality
ethical responsibility
