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Grandroids: Real Artificial Life on Your PC

What better way to shake off those "Where's Creatures 4?" blues than news of an exciting new project by the mind behind Creatures, Steve Grand!

Grandroids: Real Artificial Life on Your PC
He writes:

Imagine that someone has discovered alien creatures on a nearby planet and is planning to import them to Earth to sell as pets. Would you want to buy one?

What would you do with it? Where should you keep it? What is it capable of? Does it have alien dreams, hopes, fears? Does it have its own primitive language? Its own culture? What should you feed it? What makes it sick and how do you look after it? Can this species safely coexist with that species? Is it possible to get the creatures to breed, here on Earth? Might they evolve? Can we understand their biology? Can we interpret the structure of their brains? Are they conscious? Should they have rights?

If these are not the kinds of question that would run through your mind, this isn't the project for you. But if they are, read on, because I need your help...

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