Nish'ta - An artificial organism in the form of a green gas, that once absorbed into a body's tissues opens the subject to mind control.

We must take steps now to shape the emergence of artificial organisms.

Or that someone will manage to create artificial, self-reproducing organisms far sooner than anyone expected.

An 'A-life' experiment continued all the time, with the various artificial organisms living, feeding, reproducing, dying, whether any scientist was watching them or not.

So far, artificial organisms exist only as relatively simple programs that are in little danger of being confused with the real thing.

However, the interaction of those mechanisms in artificial organisms, developmental robots in particular, is still vastly understudied.

He was the major specialist in the construction of artificial organisms.

"You are aware, the artificial organisms here that relate to cellular function will also be deactivated," Raiq added.

In principle, too, it should be possible to design an artificial organism organised along the same basic principles that produce consciousness in living things.

The program randomly adds mutations to copies of the artificial organisms to allow for natural selection.