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Here are some of my journal and newspaper articles

Technical papers

Creatures: Artificial life autonomous software agents for home entertainment
This is the primary scientific reference for Creatures. See also my Creation book.
Bubbles in cyberspace
A paper on bottom-up simulation
Effing the ineffable
The case for artificial consciousness

IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal columns

Creatures: an exercise in creation
A somewhat less technical overview of the Creatures technology
Three observations that changed my life
The philosophy of emergence
Anarchy in action
Some musings on decentralisation & cellularity in computer software
Battling with GA-Joe
A diatribe against 'chuck-it-in-a-bucket science'
Curiosity created the cat
The role of self-motivation in intelligence
Delegate sensibilities
Taking the piss out of science conferences
Of mountains and molehills
About a conference I co-organised
The Year 2001 Bug: whatever happened to HAL?
What went wrong with AI

Regular Guardian column - 'Last Word'

Laser, one careful owner...
The joys of old junk
I'm sorry, has your brain broken?
The intellectual baggage in the word 'science'

Assorted general articles

Confessions of a cybergod
Life and death in a virtual world
Where Newton went wrong
A Guardian article following our Biota II conference
Second Sight
A Guardian piece about computers and reductionism
I'm sorry, has your brain broken?
Guardian article lamenting the use of the word 'science'

 

 
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