Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata

von Neumann, J. (1966). Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. University of Illinois Press.

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1966

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• Symbolic Representation
  • Molecular biology — substrate-furthest case: The genetic code is symbolic in the precise structural sense — a triplet codon (e.g., AUG) represents an amino acid (methionine) by a convention that is neither resemblance nor causal contiguity, and the convention is maintained by the cellular translation machinery (tRNAs, ribosomes), a structural reading von Neumann (1966) anticipated in his theory of self-reproducing automata and that the post-1961 deciphering of the code confirmed.

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