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Complexity and Emergence of Meaning: Toward a Semiophysics

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Arecchi, T.F. (2005). Complexity and Emergence of Meaning: Toward a Semiophysics. In: Salzano, M., Kirman, A. (eds) Economics: Complex Windows. New Economic Windows. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0344-6_1

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