Living SystemsOffering a detailed analysis of each of the major aspects and characteristics encountered at all seven levels, Living Systems identifies multiple variables of each of 9 matter-energy and information-processing subsystems, the normal and pathological states of these variables, and practical indicators for measuring changes in them. It also specifies cross-level formal identities among the levels and describes the artifacts, machines, or technologies at each level. |
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... activity of the fingers , for example . A monkey with its pyramidal tract transected can climb and hang on the wires of its cage but may have trouble in letting go . Bilateral removal of the area around the precentral gyrus of the ...
... activity of the fingers , for example . A monkey with its pyramidal tract transected can climb and hang on the wires of its cage but may have trouble in letting go . Bilateral removal of the area around the precentral gyrus of the ...
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... activity . Glucose is drawn from storage tissues and distributed preferen- tially to the muscles . Prolonged muscular activity usually increases eating , as weight - watchers can prove . The total mass of muscle grows if the high rate ...
... activity . Glucose is drawn from storage tissues and distributed preferen- tially to the muscles . Prolonged muscular activity usually increases eating , as weight - watchers can prove . The total mass of muscle grows if the high rate ...
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... activity ; that all significant delays are synaptic ; that activity of an inhibitory syn- apse absolutely prevents excitation of a neuron at the time ; and that the structure of the net does not change with time . 596 Furthermore , they ...
... activity ; that all significant delays are synaptic ; that activity of an inhibitory syn- apse absolutely prevents excitation of a neuron at the time ; and that the structure of the net does not change with time . 596 Furthermore , they ...
Contents
Tables of the Critical Subsystems | xi |
Preface to the First Edition | xxvii |
Outline of Chapters 3 4 and 6 through 12 | xxxviii |
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