Organisation: Index cards for the term 'Organisation' in W. Ross Ashby's Journal

Organisation
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These are the original index cards for the keyword "Organisation".

logic of its own 424 "pressure" in 430 stable 324 815 978 opposite to 472 simple example 480 and signals 482 worked examples 489 and memory 508 511 341 975 1157 after amputation 343 701 one cell upsetting 515 519 353 by mass effect 523 has "aim" 524 and intelligence 530 588 in auction 531 "weight" in 531 and patterns 533

change of 537 586 778 821 843 904 in machinery, examples 537 544 550 1054 for equilibrium 542 deals with variables 543 number of types of 563 585 928 2719 1248 1210 spread of 589 592 814 861 1047 "aim" of 593 equilibrium of 605 to calculate stability of 661 739 specification of 661 827 905 joining two organisations 752 776 1106 must grow 759 degree of 779 925 1124 of environment 785 Humphrey on 789 of operators 803 372 and entropy 345 359 880 Fulton on 352

Eddington on 371 important variables 823 adaptation of 827 two meanings 829 880 parameters of 846 851 856 in group 854 902 1066 break of 865 886 892 948 991 two meanings united 909 1064 irreversible 892 928 1009 machine = substitution operator 905 914 for sensory adaptation 915 simultaneity of 907 925 and its environment 934 splitting into parts 953 1108 1133 1149 1206 chain of organisations 980 number of parameters 981 984 exploring organisation 982 1177 break 1002 1087 1096

self change = break 1057 properties different from parts 1061 change of neutral point 1077 matrix of organisation 1080 no "right" 1099 change = variation 1123 intrinsic equation 1123 [anduls] irritant 1132 number of 1140 1248 2719 2736 Thorndike on 404 Jennings on 407 one or two? 1149 of organisations 1155 definition 1156 1065 selection of 1256 must change only infinitesimally 1257 and special fields 1261 concept abandoned 2557 Wells on 1928 frequency of trials 3530 implies constancy 4426 emergent properties 4986 types of organisation 1542 and entropy 5110 advantage of 5132 full generality 5474 as conditionality 5532

in set theory 5532 5993 diffusion of 5553 deducing organisation 5662 strategy for studying 5789 irreducible forms 5790 in society Reprint 189 Review 5977 number of equilibria 6019 Simon on 6076 of manure or silo 6193 self organisation, impossible 6194 growth 6291 as communication organisation net 6309 and redundancy 6367 6379 in set theory 6380 new properties 6475 and parts 6674