Artificial life book
From Live Cinema Research
Christopher G. Langton "Computation at the Edge of Chaos"
- a possibility, but it's not really a book - it's just a research paper from 1990
Related:
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos by Roger Lewin
Evolution As Computation by L Landweber, E Winfree
The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life by Claus Emmeche