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John von Neumann and the evolutionary growth of complexity: looking backward, looking forward...

Artificial life - 1 Jan 2000

McMullin B

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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. However, he put it aside in 1953, apparently due to pressure of other work. Due to his tragically early de...

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PMID: 11348586
DOI: 10.1162/106454600300103674

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