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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... concept is the internally determined control process of the system which maintains one of its varia- bles at a given steady - state value . In their early paper on cybernetics , Rosenblueth , Wiener , and Bigelow saw rudimentary ...
... concept is the internally determined control process of the system which maintains one of its varia- bles at a given steady - state value . In their early paper on cybernetics , Rosenblueth , Wiener , and Bigelow saw rudimentary ...
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... concepts : ( 1 ) ' structure ' and ( 2 ) ' process . ' " The concept ' structure ' predicates that a phenomenon consists of identifiable parts organized in functional rela- tions ; i.e. , the parts work together as a whole . . . . In ...
... concepts : ( 1 ) ' structure ' and ( 2 ) ' process . ' " The concept ' structure ' predicates that a phenomenon consists of identifiable parts organized in functional rela- tions ; i.e. , the parts work together as a whole . . . . In ...
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... concept of defense mechanisms presented by Freud and developed further by his daughter Anna is similar in some ways to my concept of adjustment processes.427 I prefer the latter phrase for two reasons . First , the word " mechanism ...
... concept of defense mechanisms presented by Freud and developed further by his daughter Anna is similar in some ways to my concept of adjustment processes.427 I prefer the latter phrase for two reasons . First , the word " mechanism ...
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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