Index 



The reference is to the page. A number in bold-faced 

 type indicates a definition. 



Accumulation, 142 



Active, 170 



Activity. 5 



Adaptation, 58 



Adaptation, serial, 200 



Adaptation-time, 148 



Adaptive behaviour, 58 



Aim, 131 



Algebra of machine, 242 



All or none, 89 



Alternating environments, 115 



Ammonia, 77 



Amoeboid process, 125 



Amplification, 235 



Ancillary regulations, 218, 229 



Archimedes, 65 



Automatic pilot, 108 



Awareness, 11 



Axioms, 8, 13 



Bartlett, Sir F. C, 38 

 Behaviour, adaptive, 58 

 Behaviour, learned, 1 

 Behaviour, line of, 20 

 Behaviour, reflex, 1 

 Bladder, 92 



Borrowed knowledge, 19 

 Bound, 48 

 Bourbaki, N., 241 

 Bovd, D. A., 119 

 Break, 92, 272 

 Burglar, 154 



Cannon, W. B., 58, 64 



Canonical representation, 244 



Cardinal number, 32 



Carey, E. J., 125 



Change, 13 



Characteristic equation, 255 



Chewing, 7 



Chimneys, 181 



Circus, 3 



Civilisation, 62 



Clock, 14 



Combination lock, 154, 205 



Communication, 218 



Complex system, 28, 33, 148, 192 



Conditioned response, 2, 16, 113 



Confluent, 185 



Connectivity, 156 

 Consciousness, 11 

 Constancy, 164 

 Constraint, 139 

 Construction, random, 97 

 Control, 159 

 Control by error, 55 

 Co-ordinates, 41 

 Co-ordination, 57, 67, 103 

 Coughing, 2 

 Cowles, J. T., 201 

 Critical state, 91, 274 

 Critical surface, 274 

 Crystallisation, 153 

 Cullen, E., 74 

 Curare, 74 

 Cvcle, 49 

 Cycling, 11, 36 



Dancoff, S. M., 130 



Delay, 120 



Demonstration, 12 



Dependence, 159 



Determinancy, 9, 95 



Diabetes, 74 



Diagram of immediate effects, 51, 122, 



278 

 Diagram of ultimate effects, 163, 278 

 Dial reading, 14, 30 

 Dictionary, 236 

 Discontinuity, 120 

 Dispersion, 178 

 Disturbance, 130, 138 

 Dominance, 161 

 Ducklings, 39 



Effectiveness, 162 

 Effects, 50 

 Elastic, 89, 272 

 End-plate, 125 

 Endrome, 125 

 Energy, 159 

 Engine driver, 6 

 Environment, 36 

 Environment, alternating, 115 

 Equations, simultaneous, 206 

 Equilibrial index, 175 

 Equilibrium, neutral, 44 

 Equilibrium, state of, 46, 254 



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