[ljvmiranda]

At first I thought Artificial Life (ALife) here is about cellular automata, soft robotics, etc. Turns out it's not...or is it?

I am curious to know if ALife is actually heading into the territory mentioned by this article.

[anonytrary]

> possibility of artificial life at places other than planets, or made out of stuff other than carbon.

I have never heard anyone in physics describe silicon-based (or other) life as "artificial life". There is nothing more or less artificial about silicon-based life compared to carbon-based life. The best description for "artificial life" I can think of is life that is explicitly created by other life; second-order life. I am also not confident that humans aren't some higher-order life themselves.

[rantwasp]

i don’t think it’s about how likely the “life” is. More about how abundant carbon is when compared to silicon.