A bit more on A-Life...
Artificial life can be in three forms - software, biological, and robotic. The "soft" kind is what Hugh Ogden does in Place. Individual A-life creatures - automata or bots - have almost no identity by themselves but can be programmed through any number of algorithms to behave communally in a variety of ways. It is not beyond possibility that a community can be taught to behave and evolve according to fear, faith, and any other trait that a highly skilled theorist might try to define in a chain of mathematical operations.
Some pretty screen shots of A-life in action -- from LifeLab at The Virtual Room:
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