How to Facilitate Variability
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The concepts of life and intelligence almost require the system to be adaptive. And adaptivity, in turn, is usually strongly dependent on the continual generation of variations in the system. The paper discusses various ways of producing the required variations, and how to support these production processes.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010