INDEX 



Cold, 238 



Commander, 211 



Communication, 123 



Complex system, 4 



Component, 31 



Composition, 21 



Compound, 216, 217 



Computer, 96, 1 16 



Conditioned reflex, 133 



Cone, 73 



Confidence, 163 



Confluence, 134 



Conjuring, 114, 125, 137 



Connexion, 65 



— , deducing, 92 



Conservation of energy, 131, 265 



Constant, 215 



Constraint, 100, 127, 173, 247 



Continuity, 9, 28 



— as constraint, 133 

 Control, 193, 213 

 flow chart, 57 



— by error, 219 



— panel, 88 

 Convergence, 134 

 Cooling, 26, 137 

 Correction, 211 

 Corruption, 186 

 Cough, 247 

 Counterfeit coin, 156 

 Coupling, 48 



— , random, 63 



— and equiUbrium, 82 



— Markovian machines, 227 

 Crane, 240 



Cricket, 15 

 Criterion, 257 

 Cube, 73 



Culture medium, 29, 30 

 Cutting pack, 141 

 Cybernetics defined, 1 

 Cycle, 75 



Darlington, C. D., 193 

 Death, 197 

 Decay of variety, 136 

 De-coding, 141 

 Definition, vii 

 Degeneracy, 46 

 Degree of confidence, 1 63 

 Degrees of freedom, 129 

 Delay, 156 



Delayer, 148 



Derivative, 1 16 



Design, 251 



Design for a Brain, v, 41, 52, 79, 84, 



116, 143, 196, 262, 273 

 Determinacy, search for, 91 



— in Bridge, 259 

 Determinate machine, 24, 225 

 Diagonal, 16 



Diagram of immediate eff'ects, 57 



, deduction of, 92 



Diagram of ultimate eff'ects, 57 



Dichotomy, 261 



Dictator, 213 



Die, 169 



Difference, 9 



Differential equation, 35, 96 



— — , stability theory, 113 

 Discrete change, 9, 28 

 Discrimination, 103 

 Displacement, 77 

 Dissociation, 169 

 Distinction, 103 

 Distortion, 188 

 Disturbance, 77, 198 



— , repetitive, 247 



Divergence, 134 



Dominance, 53 



Door, 86 



Duel, 201 



Duration of selection, 260 



Earth, constraints on, 131 



— , age of, 196 



— , reducibility on, 262 



Economic system, 37 



Effect, immediate, 56 



— , ultimate, 57 



Effector, 220 



Elastic, 112 



Electro-mechanical analogy, 96 



Element, 122, 191 



Elimination, 18 



Embody, 29 



Emergent property, 110 



Energy, 3, 131, 240, 265 



English, 170 



Entropy (of communication theory), 



174, 207 

 Entropy (of thermodynamics), 112 



136, 177 

 Environment, 271 



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