Channel and net; the matter-energy routes for information
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Nodes or decision points link channels in living and non-living systems into nets. Channels pertain to physical routes through which markers carrying information are transported among components of living systems. Channel and net subsystems possess different operating characteristics. Among the characteristics inherent to all channels are input-output transfer function, channel capacity, bandwidth, threshold, processing time, lag, distortion and noise. Channel and net subsystems can be found in several levels, beginning at the cell to the organ, the organism, a group, a society up to the supranational system, such as the European Economic Union.
Publication Name: Behavioral Science
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0005-7940
Year: 1995
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Internal transduer; signaling within the system
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Transduction occurs internally at a number of levels, starting at the cell to the level of the supranational system. At all levels, this process involves the continuous flow of information among components. At the cell level, this is initiated by 'second messenger' systems such as cyclic AMP, cyclic GMP, calcium and tyrosine kinase, as they send input signals to enzymes in the cytoplasm. While at the societal level, transduction of opinion can be carried out through elections or organized demonstrations.
Publication Name: Behavioral Science
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0005-7940
Year: 1995
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Input transducer; receiving information from the environment
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Input transducing by living systems takes place at levels above the organism, such as at the level of individual organisms, organizations, communities, societies and supranational systems. Transductions in these higher-level systems involve information inputs from members, the processing of these inputs through nervous systems and transduction at output transducers into a transmittable form into the channel and net of suprasystems.
Publication Name: Behavioral Science
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0005-7940
Year: 1995
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