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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... output transducer . Distortion of the output transducer . Rate of output transducing . Lag in output transducing . Intensity of information out- put . Costs of output transducing . 4. Relationships among subsystems or components All ...
... output transducer . Distortion of the output transducer . Rate of output transducing . Lag in output transducing . Intensity of information out- put . Costs of output transducing . 4. Relationships among subsystems or components All ...
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... output transduced information at the same rate , given optimal performance . In the G - 1 experiment , how- ever , Members 2 and 3 , who did the output transduc- ing received half as many signals on the average as the output transducer ...
... output transduced information at the same rate , given optimal performance . In the G - 1 experiment , how- ever , Members 2 and 3 , who did the output transduc- ing received half as many signals on the average as the output transducer ...
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... output transducer are : ( a ) Presynaptic regions of neurons that output sig- nals from a visceral organ to a neural organ or from one neural organ to another , the same neurons that also include encoder structures . At the organ level ...
... output transducer are : ( a ) Presynaptic regions of neurons that output sig- nals from a visceral organ to a neural organ or from one neural organ to another , the same neurons that also include encoder structures . At the organ level ...
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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