The Living Systems Project
(LIFE)
was initially formed in 1991 to develop optical computer
architectures. This activity developed into the design
of hierarchical less-than-formally rational
computational systems and the investigation of
"lifelike" information processing. Its activities are
currently focused on the transfer of state-of-the-art
theories of neural computation, biological co-evolution,
consciousness and hierarchical complex systems into the
design of both integrated digitally-interfaced lifelike
computation for ULSI "systems-on-a-chip" and
self-organizing global
processing networks for the second decade of the 21st
century.
LIFE
has an international reputation in the development
of theories of hierarchical complex systems,
computational neuroscience, emergent processing, natural
semiotics and anticipatory computation.
Research Topics
Hierarchical Complex Systems
Theoretical Biology
Intelligent and Sapient Systems
Awareness and Conscious Systems
Genetic and Cancerous Systems
