INDEX 



Optimum, 224 

 Oscilloscope, 206 

 Outcome. 138 



Pain, 43, 110 



Pain insensitivity, 119 



Paramecium, 189, 193 



Parameter, 71, 262 



Parker, G., 162, 197 



Part and whole, 5, 78 



Part-function. 87 



Pauling, L., 127 



Pavlov, I. P., 15, 65, 182 



Pendulum, 15, 26, 54, 72 



Phase-space, 22 



Pigeon, 10 



Pike, 111 



Pilot, automatic, 108 



Point, representative, 22 



Poison, 119, 140 



Poly stable system, 173 



Pre-baiting, 140 



Primary operation, 18, 243 



Principle of interference, 216 



Probability of stability, 258 



Punishment, 110, 115 



Quotient-law, 242 



Radio, 52 



Random construction, 97, 172 



Random system, 150 



Reaction, 53 



Reciprocity of connexions, 124 



Recurrent situation, 138 



References, 281 



Reflex behaviour, 1 



Reflexologist, 156 



Regular system, 243 



Regulator, ancillary, 218 



Relay, 90, 128 



Re-organisation, 107 



Representative point, 22 



Requisite variety, 229 



Response, conditioned, 2, 16, 113 



Retro-active inhibition, 141, 214 



Reward, 110 



Robinson, E. S., 217 



Rubin, H., 150 



Runaway, 53 



Running, 35 



Sea- anemone, 162, 197 

 Second-order feedback, 83 

 Selection by equilibrium, 186, 231 

 Selection by veto, 79 

 Selection, natural, 8, 134 

 Self-correction, 55 

 Sense organs, 179 

 Serial adaptation, 200 



Serving, 220 



Servo-mechanism, 53 



Shannon, C. E., 229, 270 



Sherrington, C. S., 157 



Shivering, 59 



Signal, 6 



Simultaneous equations, 206 



Skaggs, E. B., 217 



Skinner, B. F., 10 



Smoking, 181 



Snail, 189 



Solving equations, 206 



Sommerhoff, G., 69 



Sparks, 174 



Speidel, C. C, 125 



Sperry, R. W., 104 



Stability, 44, 253 



Stable field, 49 



Stable region, 48 



Stable system, 49 



Stalking, 120 



Starling, E. H., 38, 64 



State, 16, 243 



State, critical, 91, 274 



State-determined, 26 



State of equilibrium, 46, 254 



Steady state, 44 



Step-function, 75, 87, 272 



Step-mechanism, 91, 123 



Stepping switch, 103 



Stimulus, 75 



Stimulus, impulsive, 76 



Strategy, 28 



Sub-goal, 82, 226 



Subjective, 11 



Surface, critical, 274 



Survival, 8, 43, 65, 232 



Swallows, 17 



Switch, 88, 167 



System, 16, 243 



System, complex, 28, 33, 148, 192 



System, linear, 246 



System, multistable, 209 



System, natural, 25 



System, polystable, 173 



System, random, 150 



System, regular, 243 



System, stable, 49 



System, ultrastable, 80, 98, 276 



Tabes dorsalis, 39 

 Teleology, 9, 54, 131 

 Temple, G., 28 

 Tennis, 220 

 Theory of sets, 241 

 Thermostat, 44 

 Threshold, 168 

 Thunderstorm, 17 

 Time, 16 

 Tissue culture, 125 



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