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In particular animal systems seem to tolerate a great deal of component variation and noise. It is suggested that animal systems represent designs that actually take advantage of noise, unlike conventional machines, and that some of these animal systems may provide techniques which are applicable to the problem of constructing reliable machines from unreliable components.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1969/41","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1969/0041.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1969/41.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1969/bibtex/41","volume":{"slug":"1969","title":"Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1969","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1969/","year":1969,"location":"Washington, DC, USA","dates":"May 7-9, 1969","editors":"Donald E. Walker and David C. 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