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Cybernetics and Development

International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology: Zoology

  • 1 Edición - 1 de enero de 1966
  • Última edición
  • Autor: Michael J. Apter
  • Editor: G. A. Kerkut
  • Idioma: Inglés

Cybernetics and Development deals with the ways in which growing and developing biological systems control themselves during development. It is a preliminary attempt to apply some… Leer más

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Cybernetics and Development deals with the ways in which growing and developing biological systems control themselves during development. It is a preliminary attempt to apply some of the insights and techniques of cybernetics to the problem of understanding such development and its control. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of cybernetics and its methods. Separate chapters cover the use of cybernetics in the field of biological development; previous work in the area of cybernetics related to automata theory; and the application of information theory to development. Subsequent chapters present models of development. These include computer programs which continually replicate themselves and control the resulting development; growing automata nets as models of development; and a method that allows a system to control the relative sizes of its parts during development and afterwards during regeneration. This book provides enough background material to make it understandable both to the biologist with little knowledge of cybernetics and the cybernetician with no great knowledge of developmental biology.

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Preface


1. The Cybernetic Approach

Introduction

The Nature of Cybernetics

Criticisms of Cybernetics

References


2. The Problems of Development

The Relevance of Cybernetics

Background in Biology

An Axiomatization of Development

Some Basic Problems

References


3. Cybernetics and Development

Cybernetic Models of Development

Models of Self-Reproduction

Evolution, Learning, and Development

References


4. Information Theory and Development

Amount of Information in the Organism

Changes in Information Content during Development

Preformation and Epigenesis

General Discussion

References


5. Development on the Computer

Programming Development

Some Basic Models

Towards Greater Complexity

References


6. Growing Automata Nets

Design for a Zygote

Some Algorithms for Development

The Nucleus and Its Environments

References


7. The Control of Pattern

A Model of Pattern Control

A Genetic Interpretation of the Model

References


8. Discussion

Self-Reference in Development

Development into Complexity

Possibilities for Further Research

Concluding Remarks

References

Appendix

1. National-Elliott 803 Instruction Code

2. Information Theory

References

3. Turing Machines

References

4. The Jacob and Monod Work

References

Index


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  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 22 de enero de 2016
  • Idioma: Inglés

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