A world view is an overarching philosophy of the world as a whole. Here we demonstrate how applying the world view approach to important research components in the ALife field – computer simulation and artificial virtual worlds – can provide insight into their differences, and identify shortcomings in their current practice.
doi:10.1162/ISAL.a.941 (open access)
@inproceedings{Stepney:2026-ALife,
author = "Susan Stepney",
title = "From ALife Worlds to ALife World Views",
pages = 65-72,
doi = "10.1162/ISAL.a.941"
crossref = "ALife-2026"
}
@proceedings{ALife-2026,
title = "ALife 2026, Waterloo, Canada",
booktitle = "ALife 2026, Waterloo, Canada",
editor = "Nehaniv, Chrystopher L and Lewis, Peter R and Nichele, Stefano
and Čejková, Jitka and Salge, Christoph and Khan, Imran and
Derets, Hanna",
publisher = "MIT Press",
year = 2026
}