INDEX 



(The number refers to the page. A bold-faced number indicates a definition.) 



Absolute system, 41, 89 

 Absorbing state, 229 

 Aerofoil, 94 

 Air-conditioner, 200 

 Altitude, 222 

 Amino-acid, 111, 197 

 Ammonia, 110 

 Amphioxus, 3 

 Amplifier, of power, 238 



— of regulation, 265 



— of intelligence, 271 

 Andersen, H., 119 

 Aphasia, 86 

 Argon, 64 



Arrow, 130 

 Ashby, W. Ross, 273 

 Association, 133 

 Asterisk, vi 

 Atom, 261 

 Auspices, 259 

 Autocatalysis, 71, 196 

 Automatic pilot, 199, 200 

 Avalanche, 71 

 Averages, 91 



Bacteria, 29, 30, 125, 183 

 Balancing, 156 

 Basin, 23 



— as selector, 260 

 Battle of Life, 241 

 Behaviour, line of, 25 

 — , change of, 43 

 Behaviourism, 1 

 Bellman, R., 73, 273 

 Beverage, 123 

 Bicycle, 199 

 Binary digit, 126 

 Bit, 126 



Black Box, 86, 255 

 Blood count, 190 

 Blood group, 125 

 Bomb-sight, 86 

 Boom and slump, 109 



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Borrowed knowledge, 90 



Bourbaki, N., 97, 113, 158, 273 



Boyle's law, 45 



Braille, 185 



Breeding, 70 



Brewing, 112 



Bridge, 258 



Brownian movement, 78, 186 



Buses, aggregation, 81 



Button and string, 22, 100 



Cannon, W. B., 195, 273 

 Canonical representation, 29, 36 



, deduction of, 90 



Capacity, 179 

 Car, 215, 257 



— skidding, 203 

 Carbon dioxide, 81, 237 

 Card, identifying, 125 



— cutting, 141 

 Cash register, 1 5 

 Casting, 26 

 Cat, 122, 197 

 Causalgia, 82 

 Chain, Markov, 165 

 Chair, 131 

 Chameleon, 130 

 Change of state, 9 



— of input, 43 

 Channel, 130, 154 



— capacity, 179 

 Chaos, 131 

 Chasing, 145 

 Chess, 12, 241 

 Clock, 25 



Closure, 11, 28, 76, 108 

 Cloud, 30 

 Codmg, 140, 243 

 — , alphabetic, 11 



— in brain, 140 

 Coenetic variable, 212 

 Coffee, 123, 137 

 Coin, 156, 232 



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