Other Index 2: Society

1. █ Divider: 2
2. █ Section Title: Society
3. █ As man in society is analogous to the neurone in the brain, the same solution will do for both. Cannon thinks the same, 2195, 2198.
4. █ Verdoom on complexity of society and need for regulation, 1812.
5. █ Humorous illustration of the difficulty of getting organised spontaneously, 1896.
6. █ In organisations in general, particularly economic, the neutral points may have to be arranged holistically, 1661.
7. █ Processes as absolute systems in society 2158.
8. █ Society must be stable, Koffka on, 0358.
9. █ Laws as step-functions in society 2293.
10. █ Herbert Spencer notes equilibrium in society, 1836.
11. █ Application by using a (breaking) machine to discover an organisation with required properties, e.g. economic, 1477.
12. █ Organisation has two complexities: number of variables and number of parameters, 984. In man-made machines, 1054.
13. █ Why a civil servant should not show initiative! 1800.
14. █ Laws in society as step-functions. 2293.
15. █ Examples in society of independence by delay 2227.
16. █ In a united section of society effects should be graduated or continuous, 1800.
17. █ In society, variables must not be fixed thoughtlessly, 1807.
18. █ Actual example of unstable equilibrium in a country, 1851, two more examples, 2434.
19. █ Stability, not merely fixity, is essential, 1849.
20. █ "Dominant" and "recessive" in the economic world, 1897.
21. █ In forming any social system the joins should be minimal, 1905.
22. █ Variables which have to be stabilised in society 1849.
23. █ Systems of predators and prey 2553.
24. █ Ecological system of Daphnia population, 2553.
25. █ Law in a society as part-function, 2554.
26. █ Memory in society by Standing Orders. 2554.
27. █ Richardson treats foreign politics by my methods, i.e. as absolute systems, 2176.
28. █ Shakespeare quotation on conflict in man and society 1870.
29. █ Civil service, Greave's book on, feudal structure of, dispersion in, my suggestions for, 2743.
30. █ Oscillations in fly population and its cause, 2784.
31. █ Webb says that systems should not be able to control their own parameters and gives examples. 2829.
32. █ Control by target-setting, 2887.
33. █ Can all legislative activities be reduced to the setting of targets? 2898.
34. █ Animal populations fluctuate incessously and their characteristics are always on the change. There is no resting state. 2906.
35. █ Equations of a society in which each unit tries to maintain itself at some function of its surroundings 2991.
36. █ The various members of a society should not have to judge the efficacy of their individual efforts by watching a common indicator 3140.
37. █ Clausewitz on the principles of war 3453.
38. █ We would expect activities in time to avoiding impinging on amplifiers like the newspapers, 3479.
39. █ Society, and the nervous system, reduce all variables to a common form, 3481.
40. █ Moreno's diagrams of the structure of social groups, 3508.
41. █ Information as control, 3720.
42. █ Advanced society planned as a super brain 3528. Should be able to undertake super-chess, ibid.
43. █ Stabilising machinery in economic systems; free forms v. controlled forms, 4062.
44. █ Organisation of a super-society, 4246, 4264, 4270.
45. █ Organisation of a chess-playing society, 4273.
46. █ Noise in the sub-units of society, 4280.
47. █ The essentialal variables of the people in a society are as functionally joined as if in the person, 4284.
48. █ An evolving system needs long-term memories as well as short, 4374.
49. █ Trial = competition = experiment, 4380.
50. █ Example showing present ignorance about organisation, 4394.
51. █ Organisation between departments as partial solution of the problem 4515.
52. █ The human brain may not be an optimal component 4545.
53. █ Trials may [be] conducted as details within larger trial only if functionally disconnected while they are going on. 4547.
54. █ Value of using models 4555.
55. █ Methods of getting solution more quickly { 4560 4561 4562 4563 4564 4565 4566 4567 4568 4569 4570 4571 4572 4573 4574 4575 }
56. █ Economic organisation, Reprint 37 (Simon)
57. █ Incentives in social organisation 4603.
58. █ The German General Staff 4605.
59. █ Cromwell on the necessity for a constitution, 4633.
60. █ Costing as method 4635.
61. █ When limits of essential variables are 0 and + ∞, and random disturbances are likely, best strategy is to make the value maximal, as with profits, 4642.
62. █ Self locking by, Standing Orders 4642.
63. █ The British Institute of Management (London, Director....Russell) is said to be interested in all forms of scientific and theoretical management.
64. █ Societies far from the atomic level are too many to give a necessary law, though a constraint may be found in practice. 5113, 5115.
65. █ Each unit, to improve its own regulation, improves its own channels of communication. But this adds richness to the channels in the whole system, so the whole moves on to a long and complex trajectory, till it hits a critical state. 5137.
66. █ Toynbee's "laws" of societies 5142.