Circular causality and indeterminism in machines for design

Presenting a hard-to-predict typography-varying system predicated on Nazi-era cryptography, the Enigma cipher machine, this paper illustrates conditions under which unrepeatable phenomena can arise, even from straight-forward mechanisms. Such conditions arise where systems are observed from outside...

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Main Author: Thomas Fischer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers of Architectural Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263514000405