Biologically Inspired Systems Concepts –A personal history

Biologically inspired systems concepts – witch include artificial intelligence and artificial life – represent an enormously rich and – to many – fascinating source of ideas for future systems engineering architectures and designs. However, this source has been fraught with many failures and is often controversial. The author has had the fortune to be exposed to many successes as well as failures in this field and attempts to summarize over 60 years of these experiences, with lessons learned.