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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... internal transducer may carry on some of its processes independently , but it can no longer be coordinated well with the rest of the organism . It also cannot report pain , so that the processes which usually protect it cannot operate ...
... internal transducer may carry on some of its processes independently , but it can no longer be coordinated well with the rest of the organism . It also cannot report pain , so that the processes which usually protect it cannot operate ...
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... internal transducer presumably operate like similar regions in other neural structures ( see pages 254 to 257 ) . Undoubtedly higher neural centers in the organism respond not only to individual neural fibers but also to patterns of ...
... internal transducer presumably operate like similar regions in other neural structures ( see pages 254 to 257 ) . Undoubtedly higher neural centers in the organism respond not only to individual neural fibers but also to patterns of ...
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... internal transducer ( see page 656 ) , but when they assemble information from the various units that make up the organization , they are carrying out internal transducer processes . The mass of information that is transduced into ...
... internal transducer ( see page 656 ) , but when they assemble information from the various units that make up the organization , they are carrying out internal transducer processes . The mass of information that is transduced into ...
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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