Abstract
I will be discussing the plausibility of Mark Bedau’s supple adaptation view of life. After presenting the essential aspects of the view, I introduce a hypothetical system of romance novels and romance novel authors, which captures those aspects of a system which are necessary for life under Bedau’s view. Using this romance novel system as a starting point, I discuss other intuitively non-living systems, like economies and scientific literature, which would be considered alive by Bedau’s standards. Finally, I present one objection to Bedau’s view and suggest how his view might change in order to become more widely accepted.KeywordsNull ModelAdaptive SystemArtificial LifeSupple AdaptationHypothetical SystemThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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