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In order for an entity to survive, to interact with its environment to its own advantage, it must have a mechanism to measure its performance. That is, an entity must have a mechanism to measure the significance of immediate factors in both the inner and outer environment. This measure must be correlated with the environment’s actual value to the entity, as measured by some impartial outside observer. This mechanism must match the interaction’s complexity and subtlety.
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Faught, W.S. (1978). Affect. In: Motivation and Intentionality in a Computer Simulation Model of Paranoia. Interdisciplinary Systems Research / Interdisziplinäre Systemforschung. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6547-0_5
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