An Approach to Cybernetics |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 8 |
LEARNING OBSERVATION AND PREDICTION | 18 |
THE STATE DETERMINED BEHAVIOUR | 28 |
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abstraction acid activity adaptive controller artifact artificial neurones assembly attributes automaton average biological black box brain called carbon dioxide cell Chapter chemical conditional probability connections constraints control system cybernetic decision rule defect depends determined system device dice thrower ensemble entails environment equilibrium ergodic sets evolutionary network example feedback Figure filters function given GORDON PASK graph Hence hierarchy homeostasis homeostatic imitative controller impulse input interaction Jim Jones kind lamp learning logical Markovian system mathematical matrix measure mechanism ment metalanguage motor elements object language observer observer's occur organism output oxygen p₁ parameters partial information participant observer particular phase space possible predictions problem programme receptors reference frame representative system self-organizing system sense sequence servomechanism signal simulator specified stable stationary statistical structure student sub-controller subsystems teaching machine tion transition probability trial action uncertainty v₁ variety Whilst