Information, evolution, and "error-friendliness"

Mind and Matter

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 235-247

  von Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich ^a   von Weizsäcker, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ecoropa   (Germany)

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