Cybernetics of Living Matter: Nature, Man, Information

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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 Back Cover