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... reasonably good account of how the body works as a machine from minute to minute , taking in food , digesting it , excreting the waste , using the energy of substances it absorbs to carry out various other processes and so on , this ...
... reasonably good account of how the body works as a machine from minute to minute , taking in food , digesting it , excreting the waste , using the energy of substances it absorbs to carry out various other processes and so on , this ...
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... reasonably appropriate . Being able to do several differ- ent things almost inevitably involves some sacrifice of the very highest levels of performance at the normal task . Biological systems during their evolution have produced some ...
... reasonably appropriate . Being able to do several differ- ent things almost inevitably involves some sacrifice of the very highest levels of performance at the normal task . Biological systems during their evolution have produced some ...
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... reasonably accurate picture of what happened to all the variables for which figures are available for some period in the past , for instance , from 1900 to 1960. Any set of interaction values which fail to do that would of course be ...
... reasonably accurate picture of what happened to all the variables for which figures are available for some period in the past , for instance , from 1900 to 1960. Any set of interaction values which fail to do that would of course be ...
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A. N. Whitehead actually alternative attractor surface behaviour better biology C. H. Waddington CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ cent chreod Club of Rome complex systems components course critical path analysis CRUZ The University curve deal diagram discussed effect epigenetic landscape estimates example experience exploratory forecasting exponential exponential growth factors feed-back flats future Games Theory genes give growth happen homeorhesis human ideas important increase Information Theory input instance instructions interactions involved John Platt kind large number lock-in mathematical means measure move operational research organized particular pattern pay-off table perhaps philosophy pollution population practical Prisoner's Dilemma problem processes produce relevance tree schismogenesis scientific method scientists sequence simple simulation situation sort stability statistics step strategy symmetry techniques technological things tion turn types UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA usually variables whole worm zero-sum