Notes

  1. . The data presented in the figures are obtained through averaging 200 responses with a CAT computer. Each group of four traces represents simultaneous recording from four pairs of electrodes placed in a small circle in left occipital position. The traces are at angles of 0, 45, 90, and 135 degrees, respectively, obtained through bipolar recording between opposite electrodes of the eight‐electrode circular Clynes rosette.
  2. . ManfredClynes, “Cybernetic Implications of Rein Control in Perceptual and Conceptual Organization,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  156 (1969): 629–71;“Biocybernetic Principles of Dynamic Asymmetry: Unidirectional Rate Sensitivity, Rein Control (or: How to Create Opposites from a Single Measure),” in Biokybernetik, ed. H. Drischel and N. Teidt (Leipzig: University of Leipzig, 1968), pp. 29–49; Unidirectional Rate Sensitivity: A Biocybernetic Law of Reflex and Humoral Systems as Physiologic Channels of Control and Communication, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 92 (1961):946–69.
  3. Manfred Clynes, “Computer Dynamic Analysis of Pupil Light Reflex: A Unidirectional Rate Sensitive Sensor,” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Medical Electronics, pt. 11 (London: Iliffe Books, 1960), pp. 356–58.
  4. Manfred Clynes, M. Kohn, and A. Atkin, “Analog Computer Heart Rate Simulation Dynamic Analysis of the Effect of Respiration on Heart Rate in the Resting State: A Neurophysiological Reflex Study,” Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Electrical Techniques in Medicine and Biology, November 19–21, 1958.
  5. We may remark here that the proportion of motion in the world under the direction of brains appears to be increasing, and we are heading in the direction where information and decision control the movement of matter in space rather than exchanges of energy alone. Also, the energy, in fact, is merely another way of looking at the capacity of altering motion.
  6. Manfred Clynes, “Essentic Form‐Aspects of Control, Function, and Measurement,” Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology 10 (1968):5–6; “Toward a Theory of Man: Precision of Essentic Form in Living Communication,” in Data Processing in the Neruous System, ed. N. Leibovic and J. Eccles (New York: Springer‐Verlag, 1969), pp. 177–206; “Toward a View of Man,” in Biomedical Engineering Systems, ed. M. Clynes and J. H. Hilsum (New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1970), pp. 272–358; “Sources of Precision in Brain Function,” Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Information and Control Processes in Liuing Systems: Interdisciplinary Communication program (smithsonian Institution, in press).