INDEX 



Object, 131 



Observation, incomplete, 113 



Odd and even, 104 



Omen, 259 



One-one, 14 



Operand, 10 



Operator, 10 



— of clock, 25 

 Organ-playing, 60 

 Oscillation, 168 

 Oscillator, 36 

 Outcome, 203 

 Output, 46, 88 

 Ovum, 3 

 Oxygen, 222 

 Oyster, 69 



Pantagruel, 129 

 Parameter, 43 

 Parry, 201, 241 

 Part, 100, 112 



— and equilibrium, 82 

 Part-function, 66 

 Pattern, 30, 94 

 Pavlov, I. P., 133, 273 

 Pay-off matrix, 241 

 Pendulum, 34, 39, 121 

 — , feedback within, 54 

 Permanence, 193 

 Persistence, 108, 193 

 Personality Test, 125 

 Petrol, 81 



pH, 237 



Phase space, 37 



Photograph, 94 



Physiological limits, 197 



Physiology, 193 



77,259 



Pilot, 211 



— , automatic, 199, 200 



Playfair, 141 



Pneumatic amplifier, 238 



Pneumonia, 26 



Poincare, H., 113 



Point, representative, 22 



Pool, 165 



Population, 29, 30, 167 



Position, 31 



Positive feedback, 81 



Posture, 30 



Power amplifier, 238 



Power of transformation, 16, 170 



Predator, 241 

 Prediction, 132 

 Pre-fabrication, 268 

 Pressure, 45 

 Prey, 241 

 Prices, 34 

 Prisoner, 123, 124 

 Probability, 122 



— as variable, 40 

 — , constant, 162 

 Problem-solving, 272 

 Product, 21 

 Programming, 252 

 Properties, breeding, 70 

 Protocol, 88 



— , constraint in, 132 

 Protoplasm, 68 

 Provider, 201 



Psychology, topological, 113 

 Puzzle, 272 



Radio designing, 253 

 Rana, 252 

 Random, 63, 259 



— numbers, 234 



— searching, 236, 258 

 Rayleigh, Lord, 64 

 Receptor, 220 



Red corpuscles, 222 

 Reducibility, 60 



— and selection, 261 

 Redundancy, 130, 182 

 References, 273 

 Reflex, 247 



Regenerative circuit, 82, 137 

 Region, stable, 76, 229 

 Regulation, 193 



— , limit of, 211 

 — , automatic, 251 

 — , amplifying, 265 

 Reinforcement, 133 

 Re-labelling, 97 

 Relay, 84, 93 

 Repetition, 89, 121, 247 

 Replicates, 136 

 Representation, canonical, 29 

 Representative point, 22 

 Requisite Variety, law of, 206, 245 

 Reservoir, 238 

 Residues, 35 

 Resistances, 256 

 Respiratory centre, 81 



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