Making meaning in computers: Synthetic ethology revisited

Artificial Cognition Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 252-283

  MacLennan, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-111-7.ch009     Document Type: Chapter

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