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... Energy Storage - matter - energy storing ; Motor - moving ; Channel and Net - channel and net processing ; Memory - remembering . Because matter - energy markers must be conveyed over some channel if information is to be transmitted ...
... Energy Storage - matter - energy storing ; Motor - moving ; Channel and Net - channel and net processing ; Memory - remembering . Because matter - energy markers must be conveyed over some channel if information is to be transmitted ...
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... energy or information input may be somewhat differently located in space than that for another sort of input , but ... energy crossing the bound- ary . Meaning of information crossing the boundary . Sorts of information crossing the ...
... energy or information input may be somewhat differently located in space than that for another sort of input , but ... energy crossing the bound- ary . Meaning of information crossing the boundary . Sorts of information crossing the ...
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... energy . The U.S. , with 6 percent of the people , consumes 35 percent of the energy . 61 The importance of energy to the matter - energy pro- cessing of societies is recognized by Leontief , who says : To an economist " production ...
... energy . The U.S. , with 6 percent of the people , consumes 35 percent of the energy . 61 The importance of energy to the matter - energy pro- cessing of societies is recognized by Leontief , who says : To an economist " production ...
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