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... processes but as things , and to get down to the practical problem of finding out how these things interact with one another , to bring about the essentially secondary processes of chemical reaction . There are , therefore , many ...
... processes but as things , and to get down to the practical problem of finding out how these things interact with one another , to bring about the essentially secondary processes of chemical reaction . There are , therefore , many ...
Page 64
... processes which are going on . Temporal change is the basic medium of all activity , including our own . For both these reasons , an understanding merely of the structure of a complex system is not enough ; we must try to understand it ...
... processes which are going on . Temporal change is the basic medium of all activity , including our own . For both these reasons , an understanding merely of the structure of a complex system is not enough ; we must try to understand it ...
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... processes discussed here is often referred to by the name cybernetics , and the adjective ' cybernetic ' describes the character of the processes . This is a very general term , and to get much under- standing of the situation one has ...
... processes discussed here is often referred to by the name cybernetics , and the adjective ' cybernetic ' describes the character of the processes . This is a very general term , and to get much under- standing of the situation one has ...
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