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Hon, G. (2009). Living Extremely Flat: The Life of an Automaton; John von Neumann’s Conception of Error of (in)Animate Systems. In: Hon, G., Schickore, J., Steinle, F. (eds) Going Amiss In Experimental Research. Boston Studies In The Philosophy Of Science, vol 267. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8893-3_5
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