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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

Moving AI out of its infancy: Changing our Preconceptions
Why we need a bit more radical thinking in AI
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'

I admit it, I'm an alchemist
On why the Stepford Wives is further away than people think
Let's be risk averse out there
How to cripple academia and bring about the end of capitalist imperialism
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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