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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James Grier Miller. Tip of nerve Outer bulb Subcutaneous connective tissue Inner core Nerve fiber ( IA ) Pacinian corpuscle Epithelium Connective tissue Nerve endings ( IC ) Muscle spindle Fig . 6-18 Some types of receptor cells . Each ...
James Grier Miller. Tip of nerve Outer bulb Subcutaneous connective tissue Inner core Nerve fiber ( IA ) Pacinian corpuscle Epithelium Connective tissue Nerve endings ( IC ) Muscle spindle Fig . 6-18 Some types of receptor cells . Each ...
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... nerve . This is the second of the 12 human cranial nerves . Thus I shall refer to it as the optic ( II ) cranial nerve and shall give the name and number of other cranial nerves in similar form when I mention them below . Vestibular ...
... nerve . This is the second of the 12 human cranial nerves . Thus I shall refer to it as the optic ( II ) cranial nerve and shall give the name and number of other cranial nerves in similar form when I mention them below . Vestibular ...
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... nerve cells of the jellyfish . But in the worm , with nerve cells grouped at each segment , most stimuli elicit local reflexes , and behav- ior is largely segmental and highly stereotyped in terms of fixed nerve connections.1 116 In the ...
... nerve cells of the jellyfish . But in the worm , with nerve cells grouped at each segment , most stimuli elicit local reflexes , and behav- ior is largely segmental and highly stereotyped in terms of fixed nerve connections.1 116 In the ...
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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