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Contents
Emergence in History | 1 |
The Storm in the Computer | 7 |
Cellular Automata and Patterns of Flow | 22 |
Artificial Chemistries and the Prebiotic Soup | 36 |
Genetic Algorithms and the Prebiotic Soup | 48 |
Genetic Algorithms and Ancient Organisms | 65 |
Neural Nets and Insect Intelligence | 80 |
Neural Nets and Mammalian Memory | 94 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason |
| Author | Manuel DeLanda |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | A&C Black, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1441170286, 9781441170286 |
| Length | 226 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / General |
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