INDEX 



Thirst, 224 



Threat, 221 



Threshold, 66 



Till, 15 



Tinbergen, N., 26, 273 



Tinder Box, 119 



Topology, 85. 113 



Tortoise, 198 



Trace, 115 



Traffic lights, 127 



Train, 80 



Trajectory, 25, 94 



— of Markovian machine, 229 



Transducer, 44, 143 



Transform, 10 



— , multiple, 161 



Transformation, 10 



— , single-valued, 14 



— , one-one, 14 



— , many-one, 15 



— , identical, 15 



— , geometric, 20 



— , embodiment, 29 



— , random, 65, 126, 135 



— , inverse, 142 



Transient, 48 



Transition, 10 



— , observing, 146 



— , probability, 163 



Transmission, 140 



— , incessant, 161 



Trial and error, 230 



Triunique, 45 



Tustin, A., 37, 237, 273 



Twenty Questions, 1 26 



Tyrant, 213 



Tyre, 122 



Ultimate effect, 57 

 Ultrastability, 83, 233, 242 

 Uniselector, 84 



Unsolvable equations, 37 

 Unstable, 78 



Variable, 31, 100 



— in system, 40 

 — , missing, 114 

 — , essential, 197 

 Variety, 119, 125, 126 

 — , requisite, 206 



— in vectors, 249 

 Vector, 31 



— equality, 31 



— constraint, 128 

 — , sequence as, 172 

 — , variety in, 249 

 Velocity, 74 



Very large system, 61, 85, 109 



, regulating the, 244 



Veto, 83 



— , regulation by, 233, 260 



Vitamins, 40 



Vocabulary, 4 



Vocal cords, 180 



Volume, 45 



Wages, 34 

 Warder, 123 

 Water-amplifier, 266 

 Water-bath, 135, 198, 249 

 Way of behaving, 43 

 Weather, 31 

 Weaver, W., 273 

 Weighing coins, 156 

 Whole, 112 



— and equilibrium, 82 

 Wholeness, degree of, 68 

 Wiener, N., 1, 123, 177, 273 

 Work amplifier, 240 



Zero variety, 126, 137 



— entropy, message of, 211 



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