Author(s): I. M. Makarov (ed.)
Publisher: Mir Publishers
Year: 1987
Language: English
City: Moscow
Front Cover
Title Page
Contents
Preface
Note from the Compiler
I. Biology and Information
Biology Today
Basic Tendencies in Physico-Chemical Biology YU. A. OVCHINNIKOV
The “Visiting Card” of Physico-Chemical Biology
Learning the Structure to Know the Function
Genetic Engineering Revisited
“Nervous Impulse” and “Ion Channel”
Biotechnology
Genetics, Evolution, and Theoretical Biology N. V. TIMOFEEV-RESOVSKY
Transition to Constructing Living Systems A. A. BAEV
Lessons of Genetic Engineering
Genetic Engineering and Technological Revolution
Genetic Engineering and Social Atmosphere
Concluding Remarks
Autowaves:An Interdisciplinary Finding G. R. IVANITSKY, V. I. KRINSKY, and 0. A. MORNEV
Cybernetics’ Standpoint
Cybernetics Approach to Theoretical Biology A. A. LYAPUNOV
Information Theory and Evolution M. V. VOLKENSHTEIN
Control Sciences and the Harvest YU. M. SVIREZHEV
Agriculture Viewed by Engineering.Harvest Programming
Agricultural Viewed by an Ecologist. Monoculture or Agrocenosis?
Theory of Trophic Chains. Harvest versus Stability
Agroecosystems Analyzed Ecoenergetically
II. The Complexity of Living Systems
Integrity of Life
On Systematic and Integral Nature of Man V. G. AFANASYEV
The Contribution of Psychology to Systems Research of Man B. F. LOMOV
Brain and Intelligence
Natural Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence: The Philosophical View P. K. ANOKHIN
Most Important Feature of Intelligence
The Functional System as a Logical Model of Artificial Intelligence
Neurophysiological Aspects of Decision Making
The Action Result Acceptor
Evolution of Basic Intelligence Characteristics
On Reliability of the BrainA. B. KOGAN
Novel Aspects Diurnal Rhythms and Adaptation V. N. REUSHKIN
Some Remarks on Circadian Rhythms
Why Can’t We Find a Biological Clock?
Anticipation Response
Specificity of Reactions Caused by Stress Factors
The Daily Set of Stressors
Circadian Rhythms Revisited
What Will Cybernetics Say?
Circadian Rhythms and Health
Searching Activity, Sleep, and Stability of the Organism V. S. ROTENBERG
On Man’s “Third State” V. I. KLIMOVA
Neither Health, Nor Sickness
Centuries-Trained Duet
Sleep and Dreams
III. Difficulties on the Road to Truth
Science and New Information
Road to Truth (on the scientificmethod of cognition) A. B. MIGDAL and E. V. NETESOVA
The Dynamics of New Truths in Biological Sciences S. E. SHNOL
The Classical and Stochastic Determinism in Biology
Proteins versus Nucleic Acids
On the Kinetics of Oscillatory Chemical and Biological Reactions
Reproducibility of Experimental Results and “Paradoxical” Observations
On New Knowledge in Biological Studies B. V. BIRYUKOV
Criteria of Existence and Conflicting Situations in Science D. I. DUBROVSKY
New Horizons in Cognition
The Physical Fields of Biological Objects YU. V. GULYAEV and E. E. GODIK
Man’s Magnetic Fields V. L. VVEDENSKY and V. I. OZHOGIN
The Nature of Biomagnetic Fields
Magnetocardiography
Ferromagnetic Particles in the Organism
The Magnetic Fields of Internal Organs, Skin Muscles and Eyes
Neuromagnetic Fields
Radio Frequency Emission of Human Body and Medical Diagnostics V. S. TROITSKY
Several Problems in Psychology
The Psychology of Cognition and Cybernetics B. M. VELICHKOVSKY
Human Being as a Communication Channel
The Computer Metaphor
The Computational Approach: Cognitive Psychology or Cognitive Science?
Subconsciousnessand Superconsciousness P. V. SIMONOV
The Principle of Active Operator in Engineering Psychology B. F. LOMOV
Anthropocentric Approach to Analysis of the Man-Machine System
The Principle of Active Operator
Towards a Theory of the Operators Activity
The Organism and Age
Ageing and Old Age V. I. KLIMOVA
Similarity of Variety
Towards an Active Old Age
Extension of Human Life: The Biological Dimension and Experimentation V. V. FROLKIS and Kh. K. MURADYAN
Calories- and Protein-Deficient Diets
Enterosorption and Antioxidants
Physical Activity
Hormones
Inhibitors of Protein Biosynthesis and of Energy Transformation Processes
Temperature
Genetic Factors
Overhaul of Man V. D. PEKELIS
About the Authors
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