INDEX 



Goal-seeking, inappropriate, 130 

 Governor, see Watt's governor 

 Gradation, in homeostat, 133 

 in iterated systems, 140 

 in multistable system, 184 

 Grant, W. T., G8, 71 

 Grindley, G. C, 114, 124 

 Group, equations of, 204 

 of equivalent patterns, 108 



Habituation, 151 



intracerebral, 195 

 Haemorrhage, 33 

 Harmonic oscillator, 80 

 Harrison, R. G., 120, 129 

 Hawking, 180 



Hilgard, E. R., 115, 124, 194 

 Holmes, S. J., 00, 71 

 Homeostasis (Cannon), 57 

 Homeostat, 



adapting, 109 



construction, 93 



delay between trials, 132 



difficulty of stabilisation, 105 



equations of, 207, 220 



habituation, 148 



interaction, 175 



modes of failure, 130 



trained, 110 



two environments, 134 

 Hormone, 122 

 Hour-glass system, 101, 251 

 House, for homeostasis, 02 

 Humphrey, G., 152 

 Hunger, 58 

 Hunting, 132 

 Hurwitz, A., 225 

 Hurwitz' test, 218, 223 



Idempotency, 244 

 Immediate effect, 50 

 Immunity to displacement, 140 

 Inactivity, 162 



Independence, 155, Chapters 14 

 24 



not arbitrary, 157 



ultimate effects, 158 

 Individuality of subsystems, 170 

 Inflammation, 9 

 Information, 154, 211 

 Initial state, 19 



control over, 10, 78 

 Insensitivity, 131 

 Instability, see Stability 

 Instrumental lean 

 Insulator, 153, 15* 

 Integral matrix, 245 

 Integration, 212, 214 

 Intelligence test, 132 

 Interaction, 174, Chapter 18 



and 



Interference, Principle of, 194 



Intrinsic stability, 219 



Invariant, 108, 231 



Isolation, 153, 159, 210 



Iterated systems, 140, 184, Chapter 12 



Jacobian, 210 



Jamming, 250 



Jennings, H. S., 37, 42, 103, 152, 180 



Joining systems, 55, 229 



Kitten, 3, 11, 37, 01, 90, 195 

 Krebs' cycle, 190 



Lashley, K. S., 192, 193, 199 



Latent roots, 218 



Law of Reciprocity of Connections, 



128 

 Learning 



and adaptation, 03 



and consciousness, 10 



and ultrastable system, 119 



effect of new, 193 



habituation as, 152 



irreversible, 187 



localisation of, 140, 190 



serial adaptation, 180 

 Lens, 170 



Lethal environment, 131 

 Levi, G., 120, 129 

 Liddell, H. S., 19, 28 

 Lie group, 205 

 Life, 29 

 Line of behaviour, 19 



equality of two, 19 



in absolute system, 20, 208 



recording, 19 



of part-functions, 104 



stability of, 47 

 Linear system, 215 

 Localisation of learning, 190 

 Locomotion, 40 

 Loeb, Jacques, 120 

 Lorente de X6, R., 127, 129 



Machine, 13 



algebra of, 254 



number of variables, 15 

 Main variables, 87, 228 

 Marina, A., 117, 124 

 Mathematics, learning, 185 

 Matrix, 



differential, 245 



integral, 245 



notation, 215 



R0— , 243 

 Marquis, D. G., 115, 124, 194 

 Maze, 3 



McCulloch, W. S., 128, 129, 108, 170 

 McDougall, W., 04, 71 



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