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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... cesses . Tissues do not constitute a level of living sys- tem because they do not have the essential subsystem- a decider to coordinate all tissue of a particular kind throughout the organism . No organ is able to survive by itself ...
... cesses . Tissues do not constitute a level of living sys- tem because they do not have the essential subsystem- a decider to coordinate all tissue of a particular kind throughout the organism . No organ is able to survive by itself ...
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... cesses . 350 Both reception ( decoding ) and expression ( encoding and output transducing ) of gamma - coded information can be affected by damage to any part of this area . The more abstract and complicated the ideas , the more ...
... cesses . 350 Both reception ( decoding ) and expression ( encoding and output transducing ) of gamma - coded information can be affected by damage to any part of this area . The more abstract and complicated the ideas , the more ...
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... cesses , ” he notes , are often equated with cognition , the processes whereby people obtain objective knowl- edge about their environment and analyze informa- tion inputs from it . He wants more investigation of how a person learns ...
... cesses , ” he notes , are often equated with cognition , the processes whereby people obtain objective knowl- edge about their environment and analyze informa- tion inputs from it . He wants more investigation of how a person learns ...
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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