The cellular automata model was described by John von Neumann and his friends in the 1950s as a representation of information processing in multicellular tissue. With crystalline arrays of cells and synchronous activity, it missed the mark (Stark and Hughes, BioSystems 55:107–117, 2000). Recently, amorphous computing, a valid model for morphogenesis in multicellular information processing, has begun to fill the void. Through simple examples and elementary mathematics, this paper begins a computation theory for this important new direction.

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非晶计算：例子、数学和理论。

1950 年代，John von Neumann 和他的朋友们将细胞自动机模型描述为多细胞组织中信息处理的表示。由于细胞晶体阵列和同步活动，它没有达到目标（Stark and Hughes, BioSystems 55:107–117, 2000）。最近，非晶计算，一种有效的多细胞信息处理形态发生模型，已经开始填补这一空白。本文通过简单的例子和​​初等数学，为这个重要的新方向开始了计算理论。