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Turing Machines and Evolution. A Critique of Gregory Chaitin’s Metabiology

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|Mar 2017

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0059 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6059 | Journal ISSN: 0860-150X
Language: English
Page range: 133 - 150
Published on: Mar 16, 2017
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