Re: Is alife useful? Does it have commercial usage?

Hym :),

I still do not get it, maybe because I don't have many knowledge in
this fields but how is ALife connected with fields like signal
processing and physical computation. I can imagine that it is possible
to be used in economics, but I can not imagine exactly how.

Do we have the same definition of ALife? For me ALife is an organism
which is executing (living) in a computer environment. So in my
opinion it is a program, script or genotype which can interact with
the environment and eventually is developed with natural selection.

> Just take cellular automata as an example. This model belongs to ALife and
> has a wide range of useful applications, e.g. Physical Computations
> (Lattice gas methods for computational fluid dynamics), signal processing,
> therotical computation models, modeling and simulation of economic,
> ecologic and social problems or art (Langton's ant), etc..