Ross indexed the following pages under the keyword: "Selection".

Break mostly harmful Organisation selection of Selection of organisations 1255 1256

Memory and selectivity Selection needs memory Selection of wave length 2625 2626

Cleverness may be purely negative Selection of patterns Summary: 'Positive' cleverness may be really only what is left after the elimination of nonsense. 4578 5307.3 (See 3629) Information amplifier for 3609 3610

Selection example Natural Selection [37]: Illustration of the power of 'mere' selection, 3633. Arc active and inactive Arc number of The Multistable System [92]: The number of arcs that a reaction activates; distribution and average, 3634. The Multistable System [93]: Number of reactions that will use a given arc; distribution and average, 3634. DAMS (Dispersive and Multistable System) [48]: Numerical estimates of DAMS' efficiency in dispersion, 3634. 3633 3634

Natural Selection [52]: Abstact form of 'selection', 4036. Summary: Abstract, and objective form of 'selection'. Review: 4137. 4099, 4229 Selection abstract definition 4036 4037

Summary: Destruction of information. 4164, 4166. Review 4151, 4385 Summary: Monograph on Evolution. Self-locking system two examples Natural Selection [63]: Monograph on Evolution { 4136 - 4155 }. The Multistable System [53]: Mongraph on Evolution, { 4136 - 4155 }. Summary: Part 1: Selection. Adaptation equals selection Selection monograph on Natural Selection [63]: Monograph on Evolution { 4136 - 4155 }. The Multistable System [53]: Mongraph on Evolution, { 4136 - 4155 }. 4136 4137

Coefficient use of Selection on egg-laying Natural Selection [72]: Selection for egg-laying, 4216. The Multistable System [66]: Comparison with selection for egg-laying 4216. Natural Selection [27]: Analogue of dispertion occuring [SHORTHAND] Darwinian adaptation. 4217. 4216 4217

Selection in transducer 4230 4231

Summary: How to get the time of adaptation to be reduced by the machine automatically. (Also) An ad hoc design is equivalent to a feedback loop with selection amplifier. 4246 Coding in dispersion Dispersion can be learnt Selection amplifier Summary: The diagram is more general than it looks. Summary: Getting information from a system. Epistemology [15]: Entropy and observation, 4245. 4244 4245

Summary: Multiple, competing, essential variables lead to the same problem, whether occurring in one person or scattered among many. 4289 Conflict between essential variables Essential variables conflict between Essential variables dominance between Levels of essential variables Society [47]: The essential variables of the people in a society are as functionally joined as if in the person, 4284. The Multistable System [75]: Levels between essential variables. 4284. Psychiatric applications [26]: Conflict between two essential variables, 4284. Intelligence as selection Selection intelligence as 4284 4285

Summary: Must every system drift to the condition of maximal internal separation? 4500, 4524 Summary: Cap or intersection as selective operator. Summary: Unsolved problem. Solved 5009 Operator ∩ (intersection) as selector Selection by ∩ (intersection operator) 4472 4473

Selection amplifier Summary: Amount of selection and ultrastability. 4582.6, 4904 Unsolved problems [15]: Paradox of which is the more important, permanence or change 4521. 4520 4521

Summary: §5 Selection by components Adaptation speeding up adaptation Constraint effects of Speed (of adaptation) of learning Society [55]: Methods of getting solution more quickly { 4560 - 4575 } Adaptation speeding up adaptation Constraint effects of Selection as application Speed (of adaptation) of learning Society [55]: Methods of getting solution more quickly { 4560 - 4575 } 4570 4571

Summary: Two messages in a channel need not interact. 4641 Random movements giving trigonometrical equation Summary: Emission of "cos2x + sin2x =1" randomly. Selection quantity of 4578 4579

Summary: Relation of essential variables to selection-amplifier. 4586 Problems solving problems Selection of solution Solution (to a problem) finding 4584 4585

Question variety in Selection and variety Trial and error variety in Variety in set v. in element 4692 4693

Information flows in homeostat Selection and variety Switching switching off 4706 4707

Summary: The limit of progressive regulation. Amplifier limit of Regulation limit of Control as reduction Equilibrium and information Information as reduction Regulation and information Selection and information Survival in set theory 4794 4795

Summary: Strategy of trial and error. 4844, 4949 Machine is a selector Selection by machine Statistic trial and error as statistic Mapping tensor power of 4798 4799

Regulation multiplicity of aims Summary: Speed is merely one of many demands that can made to qualify simple adaptation. 4964 Optimum selecting efficiently Selection definition of object by reference to others 4900 4901

Summary: Effects of channel capacity in joining two systems, only one of which is observed. Epistemology [49]: As the coupling between B and A is made richer, either by increasing channel capacity or by adding immediate effects, so will what is in B affect x the sooner. 5026. DIAGRAM Entropy during search Hunt and stick information flow Information during hunt and stick Searching information flow Selection informatiom flow Trial and error gives information 5026 5027

Summary: Theory of the homeostat. Amplifier demonstration Magnet in selection-amplifier Selection demonstration Summary: Demonstration of selection-amplifier. Prediction falsifies itself 5076 5077

Selection requires information Summary: No general principle can be sufficient guide when selection must be done; some actual channel is also necessary. 5585 Arc selection of Essential variables discrimination by Feedback methods for discrimination 5548 5549

Summary: Habituation with cycles allowed. 6108 Habituation tilde-operation Machine generating properties Selection by machine 6088 6089

Coordination in time Directive correlation (Sommerhoff) in time Input selection by Property selection for Selection by input-sequence 6138 6139

Energy and equilibrium irrelevant Equilibrium and energy Max( ) (function) energy and equilibrium Minimum energy and equilibrium Summary: Energy flow is neither maximal nor minimal at equilibrium; it is just irrelevant. 6321, 6345, 6350, 6365 Constraint through relation Relation transmits constraint Selection through relation 6294 6295

Summary: So we have exemplified the fact that laws that are functions of their place of action, will develop different adaptations in different places. 6350 Competition mathematical examples Selection by machine 6300 6301

Summary: Final (?) statement of the lae of anticipation. 6334, 6342, 6347 Communication in conditioned reflex Reflex, conditioned as communication between operations Selection and conditioned reflex 6324 6325

Summary: Notes on: Finding stored information. 6362 Equilibrium as survival Selection mathematical examples Survival mathematical examples 6354 6355

Equilibrium as survival Selection mathematical examples Survival mathematical examples Summary: Example of natural selection and evolution in a computer. 6358 Equilibrium as survival Selection mathematical examples Survival mathematical examples 6356 6357

Equilibrium as survival Selection mathematical examples Survival mathematical examples Summary: Survival of the fittest in a computer. Equilibrium as survival Selection mathematical examples Survival mathematical examples 6358 6359

Equilibrium as survival Selection mathematical examples Survival mathematical examples Summary: Survival of the fittest in a computer. Equilibrium as survival Selection mathematical examples Survival mathematical examples 6360 6361

Selection the whole process Summary: The totality of selection and the pieces. 7126 7110 7111