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In the middle of the last century, Alan Turing, who is known as one of the founders of computers and the information theory, as well as one of the pioneers of the science about the artificial intelligence, has published the work in which he demonstrates how the simple combination of just a few chemical reactions together with the diffusion processes can spontaneously result with the appearance of the morphological patterns similar to the simple biological forms.

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  1. Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Hrvoj Vančik

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Vančik, H. (2024). Introduction. In: From Complexity to Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56136-8_1

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