vonNeumann:TheoryofSelf-ReproducingAutomata
Metadata
Title: Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
Authors: John von Neumann
Publication Year: 1966
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Abstract
Comparisons between computing machines and the nervous systems. Estimates of size for computing machines, present and near future. Estimates for size for the human central nervous system. Excursus about the “mixed” character of living organisms. Analog and digital elements. Observation about the “mixed” character of all componentry, artificial as well as natural. Interpretation of the position to be taken with respect to these.