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Adequate Locomotion Strategies for an Abstract Organism in an Abstract Environment — A Relational Approach to Brain Function

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Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System

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The idea to be presented in the following — namely a relational approach to brain function — belongs to the class of so-called teleonomic (Pittendrigh, 1958) approaches in biology in which certain features and organizations are predicted as (more or less) necessary implications of a particular function which is known to be performed by the system to be analyzed.

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  1. Division of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    O. E. Rössler

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    Michael Conrad , Werner Güttinger  & Mario Dal Cin ,  & 

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Rössler, O.E. (1974). Adequate Locomotion Strategies for an Abstract Organism in an Abstract Environment — A Relational Approach to Brain Function. In: Conrad, M., Güttinger, W., Dal Cin, M. (eds) Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80885-2_19

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