Ideas of Conservation

Abstract

Examines the apparent stability of a “real” nervous system in comparison with the instability of diagrams of circuits representing nervous entities. Suggests that this stability is maintained by the “push‐pull” organization within a nervous system, where some parts are at work while others rest. Asks whether conservation in this form may be the result of a “need to maintain stability at a molecular level”.

Citation

James, B. (1992), "Ideas of Conservation", Kybernetes, Vol. 21 No. 6, pp. 55-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005947