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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... changes like mutations , birth , growth , development , aging , and death ; changes which commonly follow trauma or disease ; and changes resulting from learning which are not later forgotten . Historical processes alter both the ...
... changes like mutations , birth , growth , development , aging , and death ; changes which commonly follow trauma or disease ; and changes resulting from learning which are not later forgotten . Historical processes alter both the ...
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... Changes in matter - energy or information processing at the boundary with differ- ent circumstances . Rate of matter ... changes and maintain over time steady states of many sorts of matter - energy . 3.2.1 Ingestor , the subsystem which ...
... Changes in matter - energy or information processing at the boundary with differ- ent circumstances . Rate of matter ... changes and maintain over time steady states of many sorts of matter - energy . 3.2.1 Ingestor , the subsystem which ...
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... changes in the sizes and shapes of cells and their organelles , which are indicators of changes in process variables , e.g. , mitosis ( see Fig . 6- 12 ) or meiosis ( see Fig . 6-13 ) , which are changes in reproducing ; movement of an ...
... changes in the sizes and shapes of cells and their organelles , which are indicators of changes in process variables , e.g. , mitosis ( see Fig . 6- 12 ) or meiosis ( see Fig . 6-13 ) , which are changes in reproducing ; movement of an ...
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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