Memorial Hall / Artificial Life Exhibit
Artificial Life Tierra
A museum-panel style introduction to Tierra, the small electronic world where programs acted like living things.
Tierra asks a simple but difficult question: can life-like evolution happen inside a computer?
The related specimen aquarium lets visitors observe a small artificial ecology rather than play for a score.
Can Life Evolve Inside A Machine?
Tierra is introduced here as a memorial-hall exhibit: a small electronic world where programs behaved less like documents and more like organisms.
Copying Creates Difference
When a self-copying program occasionally copies imperfectly, most changes fail. Some do nothing. A few may reproduce faster or exploit the environment. That is where evolution-like behavior begins.
Continue To The Aquarium
The specimen aquarium is the related display device. It lets visitors observe a simplified ecology rather than only read about it.