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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... nervous system , but in a few places the skeletal nervous system provides part or all of the innervation . There are ... central nervous system - the brain and spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system , which has cerebrospinal and ...
... nervous system , but in a few places the skeletal nervous system provides part or all of the innervation . There are ... central nervous system - the brain and spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system , which has cerebrospinal and ...
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... neural components are superimposed on those previously in existence . Components of the decider are evidently widely dispersed in the endocrine and central neural tissue of higher organisms . Much is still unknown about the structure of ...
... neural components are superimposed on those previously in existence . Components of the decider are evidently widely dispersed in the endocrine and central neural tissue of higher organisms . Much is still unknown about the structure of ...
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... nervous system and the central nervous system , the organ components innervated by the autonomic ner- vous system can still function fairly well . But the autonomic system is not truly independent in its func- tions , for signals from the ...
... nervous system and the central nervous system , the organ components innervated by the autonomic ner- vous system can still function fairly well . But the autonomic system is not truly independent in its func- tions , for signals from the ...
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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