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The articles in the volume Computing Nature present a selection of works from the Symposium on Natural/Unconventional Computing at AISB/IACAP (British Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy) World Congress 2012, held at the University of Birmingham, on the occasion of the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth.
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Dodig-Crnkovic, G., Giovagnoli, R. (2013). Computing Nature – A Network of Networks of Concurrent Information Processes. In: Dodig-Crnkovic, G., Giovagnoli, R. (eds) Computing Nature. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37225-4_1
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