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A note on the development of organismic sets

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It is suggested that the development of organismic sets is governed not by the maximalization of the integral survival value, as suggested previously (Bull. Math. Biophysics,28, 283–308, 1966;29, 139–152, 1967;30, 163–174, 1968), but by maximizing the number of new relations which appear as an organismic set develops.

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  1. Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Rashevsky, N. A note on the development of organismic sets. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 30, 355–357 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476704

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