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Sporadic sustained nonperiodic oscillations in the activities of organismic sets

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In combining the author's theories of organismic sets (Rashevsky,Bull. Math. Biophysics,31, 159–198, 1969a) and Robert Rosen's theory of (M, R)-systems (Bull. Math. Biophysics,20, 245–265, 1958), a conclusion is reached that the number of either normal or pathological phenomena in organismic sets may occur. Those phenomena are characterized by occurring spontaneously once in a while but are not exactly periodic. Some epilepsies are an example of such pathological phenomena in the brain.

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Rashevsky, N. Sporadic sustained nonperiodic oscillations in the activities of organismic sets. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 33, 555–559 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476417

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