John von Neumann and the Evolutionary Growth of Complexity: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
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- 1 October 2000
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in Artificial Life
- Vol. 6 (4) , 347-361
- https://doi.org/10.1162/106454600300103674
Abstract
In the late 1940s John von Neumann began to work on what he intended as a comprehensive “theory of [complex] automata.” He started to develop a book length manuscript on the subject in 1952. Howeve...Keywords
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