INDEX 



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



Absolute system, 24, 45, 73, 105, 



209, Chapter 19 

 Accumulation, 213 

 Activity, 67, 162, 164 

 Adaptation, 64, Chapter 5 



accumulation of, 172 



loss of, 133 



needs independence, 137 



of iterated systems, 141 



of multistable system, 172 



serial, Chapter 17 



system to system, 174 



time taken, 135 



two meanings, 63 

 Adaptive behaviour, 64 



classified by Holmes, 66 

 Addition of stimuli, 167 

 Aileron, 99 

 Aim : see Goal 

 Algebra, of machine, 254 

 All or nothing, 127 

 Ammonia, 78 

 Ammonium chloride, 20 

 Amoeba, 152 



Amoeboid movement, 126 

 Animal-centred co-ordinates, 40 

 Archimedes, 65 

 Area striata, 170 

 Artificial limb, 39 

 Ashby, W. Ross, 71, 102, 199, 225, 



231, 236, 240 

 Assembly, and canonical equations, 



211 

 Association areas, 190 

 Assumptions made, 9 

 Automatic pilot, 99 

 Awareness, 10 



Bacteria, 156 

 Bartlett, F. S., 37, 42 

 Behaviour, 14 



classified, 66 



reflex and learned, 2 



representation of, 23 

 Bernard, Claude, 125 

 Bicycle, 35 

 Bigelow, J., 71 

 Binocular vision, 118 

 Biochemical co-ordination, 196 

 Body-temperature, 58 

 Borrowed knowledge, 14 

 Boyd, D. A., 131, 138 



Break, 85, 126, 233 

 Burn, 131 



Calculating machine, 130 

 Cannon, W. B., 57, 64, 71 

 Canonical equations, 206, 211 

 Cardinal number, 31 

 Carey, E. J., 127, 129 

 Carmine, 103 

 Causation, 49 



partition of, 241 

 Cell, step-functions in, 125 

 Characteristic equation, 217 

 Chemical dynamics, 17, 143, 178 

 Chess, 8, 102 



Chewing, co-ordination of, 7 

 Chimney, 191 

 Chimpanzee, 186 

 Civilisation, 62 

 Clock, as time-indicator, 15 



variables of, 14 

 Cochlea, 169 



Collision, 60, 131, 180, 187 

 Complexity, 121 

 Compound microscope, 3 

 Concepts, restrictions on, 9 

 Conditioned reflex, 2, 8, 16, 19, 34, 75, 



115, 137, 167, 192, 194 

 Conduction of heat, 17 

 Congruence, 205 



Connection between systems, 153 

 Consciousness, 10 



Conservation, of adaptation, 133, 140, 

 184 



of zeros, 231 

 Constancy, 67, 72, Chapter 14 



classification of, 80 

 Constant, as null-function, 203 



of proportionality, 81, 84, 232 

 Constraint, adaptation to, 102 

 Control, 16, 155 



"by error, 54 

 Convulsion, 187 

 Co-ordinates, animal-centred, 40 



change of, 212 

 Co-ordination, and stability, 55 



motor, 67 



of reflexes, 196 

 Cortex, localisation in, 191 

 Cough reflex, 2 

 Cowles, J. T., 186, 189 

 Critical state, 84 



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