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... mation input overload , in which a living system at a given level is presented with more information than it can readily process . This chapter describes this cross- level research . We hear much today about the infor- mation explosion ...
... mation input overload , in which a living system at a given level is presented with more information than it can readily process . This chapter describes this cross- level research . We hear much today about the infor- mation explosion ...
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... mation input rates exceed channel capacities is not the result of destruction of the systems by overloads of the matter - energy in the markers which convey the infor- mation because : ( a ) The process is almost instantly reversible ...
... mation input rates exceed channel capacities is not the result of destruction of the systems by overloads of the matter - energy in the markers which convey the infor- mation because : ( a ) The process is almost instantly reversible ...
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... mation that can be processed simultaneously or in a brief moment ( see pages 136 and 137 ) and ( b ) research on the channel capacity , which is concerned with the maximum rate of serial transmission of bits of infor- mation ( see pages ...
... mation that can be processed simultaneously or in a brief moment ( see pages 136 and 137 ) and ( b ) research on the channel capacity , which is concerned with the maximum rate of serial transmission of bits of infor- mation ( see pages ...
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