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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... increased from about 3.7 to about 10.7 percent . It was apparent that the increased input rates of traffic accelerated information processing to such a point of overload that the necessary information to ensure optimal landings could ...
... increased from about 3.7 to about 10.7 percent . It was apparent that the increased input rates of traffic accelerated information processing to such a point of overload that the necessary information to ensure optimal landings could ...
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... increased their transmission rates with input rate up to a point and then decreased , so that at the input rate of 15.00 bits per s they were transmitting information more slowly than at an input rate of 2.81 bits per s . This in spite ...
... increased their transmission rates with input rate up to a point and then decreased , so that at the input rate of 15.00 bits per s they were transmitting information more slowly than at an input rate of 2.81 bits per s . This in spite ...
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... increasing success and increasing failure increased military risk taking . At odds of 5 to 7 , how- ever , the trend reversed . Subjects for these experiments were selected after they were tested as to their " structural complexity ...
... increasing success and increasing failure increased military risk taking . At odds of 5 to 7 , how- ever , the trend reversed . Subjects for these experiments were selected after they were tested as to their " structural complexity ...
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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