Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components.

von Neumann, J. (1956). Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components. Automata Studies.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1956

Pages cited

43-98

DOI

10.1515/9781400882618-003

ISBN

9781400882618

DOI registrant

Princeton University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400882618-003

Cited from

biology_ecology, systems_cybernetics

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Functional Redundancy (Degeneracy)
  • Von Neumann (1956) formalized this principle in his theory of probabilistic logics and showed it was foundational to building arbitrarily reliable computing systems from individually unreliable components through majority-organ multiplexing.

    This sourceFoundational result that arbitrarily reliable computation can be built from unreliable components via majority-organ multiplexing; directly supports the exponential-reliability economic logic claim.

• Redundancy
  • Redundancy is a fault-tolerance design pattern characterized by deliberate duplication of components or functions whose failure would otherwise cause system failure, such that the duplicates can maintain function if any one of them fails

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