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Summary: Conditioning in the homeostat, in terms of set theory. Insisting on two properties simultaneously does not tend to make the
one evoke the other.
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Excitation and organisation Summary: Effects of selecting two properties simultaneously.
Summary: When a mapping operates (a state-determined system) either: activity goes down or internal pattering increases. 6850, 6835. Examples: 6854 Summary: Under any (one) sequence of mappings either activity decreases or internal patterning increases. 6777
Entropy H(½+y,½-y) Summary: The Poisson distribution has entropy (just under) 1 bit less than the even distribution. 6780, 6814 Summary: Entropy of ½ ± y.
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Summary: One random mapping on an even (rectangular) distribution with many variables goes almost wholly to internal constraint (transmission).
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Summary: How a random mapping increases the convergence.
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Entropy Bent's book Second Law (of thermodynamics) Bent's book Summary: Under a random mapping, the internal transmission will rise rapidly at first, as the distribution leaves the rectangular form;
but it will soon stop increasing, and can be expected to show no further interesting degree of increase. 6802
Convergence (of lines of behaviour) in net Mapping convergence in net Network convergence in Summary: Thinly connected nets converge faster. If... Nothing can be inferred about two being easier than three unless we add an assumption about the zeroness of higher order
interactions (independence of higher order probabilities.)
Memory and increase Pattern (in general) exchange with memory Summary: Any memory-determined system (more than one state back) must show ever-increasing constraint over the successive memory spans.
Summary: Cylindrance of a needle-pierced rectangular set equals the needle's base.
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Dynamic system information in, v. static Information dynamic versus static systems Summary: Studying mechanisms that are "dynamic" demands far more information than those that are more of the "static" type.
Question improper Summary: A start to the difficult problem of the mapping that conserve rectangularity.
Summary: As many people, trained on simple systems, will start by asking the wrong questions, the cybernetician must be well educated
in recognising wrongness.
Summary: The brain's job is to carry, as information for coordination, only what cannot be carried by the environment. The size of
our brain reflects only the deficiency of the environment.
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Summary: Worked out examples of how to make the enemy work as ship-to-ship transmitter.
InformationConant's HL,TL,QL Library retrieval equals theorem-proving Theorem theorem proving equals information retrieval TransmissionConant's TL Summary: Conant's measures HL,TL,QL have the freedom from absolute value called for in the "Bio Science" paper.
Analysis of information flow Coordination minimal information for Information partitioned Partition of information flows Transmission minimal, in coordination Summary: (1) The "transmissions" require for coordination can always be achieved - method given. (2) The whole flow of information
can be analysed by the methods of book-keeping. Another analysis: 6997
