Digital Art pg. 143. How truly "natural" can Thomas Ray's "Tierra" be if it is an artificial environment to begin with? I am not a computer science person by a long shot, but I do know that any environment the program evolves in is going to have basic laws in which to operate that have been ordained by the programs developer. This could be seen as an argument for intelligent design I think. Don't get me wrong, it would be amazing to watch in person, I am just curios about the discourse it would spawn.