Other Index 4: DAMS (Dispersive and Multistable System)

DAMS consisted of 100 randomly connected valves.

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2. █ Section Title: DAMS (Dispersive and Multistable System)
3. █ How to design and build a multistable system. 2950. Its value basis, 2953.
4. █ Display for DAMS, 3001.
5. █ Effect on DAMS' equations of a neon striking, 3055.
6. █ DAMS, final placements of neons 3042.
7. █ DAMS' intrinsic stability, 2979, 2982, 3050.
8. █ DAMS, equations of, 2983. DAMS Mark 13, equations of, 3053.
9. █ DAMS has a higher order stability in 'number of neons lit' 3043.
10. █ Factors affecting DAMS' stability 3054.
11. █ Probability that k active variables in DAMS will be stable, 2984.
12. █ DAMS should have plenty of informative feedback, 3142.
13. █ Possible patterns for joining output and inputs, 3182, 3237.
14. █ Essential variable that will inject noise proportional to its deviation 3410.
15. █ How to retain information in DAMS, 3398, 3428.
16. █ For many resting states, the steps functions' behaviours should be almost uncorrelated. 3391.
17. █ Environment for DAMS must be more than minimally complex, 3387.
18. █ Advantage to the Essential Variables, if specialised, of using noise 3383.
19. █ Essential variables should be able to send much information in the rest of the system if they are specialised. 3382.
20. █ Why DAMS was changed to give more resting states, 3348.
21. █ In DAMS, the other conditions have no 'usual' values; and this increases the difficulty we have in apprehending it. 3416.
22. █ DAMS must contain its information reduntantly 3419.
23. █ DAMS' variables must be arranged in layers at its sensory input, in order not to lose information, 3420.
24. █ For DAMS to have many resting states it must have much independence internally 3423.
25. █ Main properties of DAMS at the 20-variable size, 3425.
26. █ Look of for dimensionless numbers in DAMS, 3439.
27. █ Look for large-scale examples of step-function, resting state, absolute system, in DAMS, especially when it is large, 3439.
28. █ When DAMS is being demonstrated, let it be increasingly slightly disturbed, 3460.
29. █ DAMS is a 'statistical' machine: what does this mean? Answer, 3466.
30. █ DAMS should show absolute systems of few variables, each a statistic from the larger system, 3477.
31. █ Experiment to be tried on DAMS, 3478.
32. █ Practical method for DAMS' environment, 3482.
33. █ Number of resting states in DAMS, 3504.
34. █ History of DAMS: taken down for uniformisation, 3509.
35. █ The two inputs to each value cause mixing just as do two sexes, 3509.
36. █ How to improve DAMS, 3513.
37. █ Wiring counts as 'anatomy' in DAMS, 3538.
38. █ Neon lamp as absolute system, 3545.
39. █ Effect of joining by subsystems, 3548.
40. █ Subsystems formed when many units are joined at random, 3550.
41. █ Various patterns of joining tried, 3555.
42. █ Principle for eliminating oscillating circuits 3558.
43. █ Environment, Essential Variables, and network, 3559.
44. █ Method of testing for 'illegitamate' and wandering actions, 3562.
45. █ Number of neurone in monkey's nuclei 3562.
46. █ Effect of a 'bottleneck' in the levels 3571.
47. █ Possible mode for action of essential variables, 3603.
48. █ Numerical estimates of DAMS' efficiency in dispersion, 3634.
49. █ DAMS is too small to show multistability 3637.
50. █ 'Brownian' activity in DAMS, 3642.
51. █ Advantageous adjustment mechanisms, 3652.
52. █ The resting states of DAMS are not accessible unless a rich source of information is available and a broad channel into it, 3656.
53. █ Habituation in DAMS, 3706.
54. █ If an ensemble has an input, the behaviour depends less and less on the initial state, 3707.
55. █ The critical surfaces of the neons in DAMS do not fulfil the same functions as the crit. surfaces of the relays in the homeostat 3834.
56. █ The channel from step-functions to observer must be broad if observer is to see much variety in behaviour 3867.
57. █ Number of resting states when arranged DIAGRAM without neons, 3873.
58. █ Number of resting states of the 'clover leaf', DIAGRAM 3877.
59. █ Design by me is not essentially different from design by a component, 4243.
60. █ How to design a self-adapting machine, [SHORTHAND] how to make it evolve, 4261.
61. █ Conditioning of the components must satisfy [?] system [?] to be able to have resting states that differ [into] [?] a few of the variables.
62. █ Magnification causes loss of information, 4417.
63. █ Effect of magnification in DAMS, 4422.
64. █ DAMS described as a shuffling machine 4510.
65. █ Strategy for getting DAMS better aligned 4511.
66. █ Habituation in DAMS, theory of, 4529.
67. █ Latent roots of a system arranged in a circle of levels, 3431. DIAGRAM
68. █ Roots of a system joined in levels and with one level reduced to a single variable, 3578. DIAGRAM
69. █ Stability of system with transition probabilities. Roots of matrix of elements all between 0 and 1 and where each row sums to 1. 3086.
70. █ Effect of surrounding variables on resistance of a part to a stimulus that would force it to another resting state. 3146. (Theory of DAMS.)
71. █ The multistable system [SHORTHAND] essential variables are separated, 4226.
72. █ Behaviour of dispersive system when the Essential variables emit disturbances proportional to their deviations 3057.
73. █ Another form, with the essential variables' limits separate from the step-functions', 2955.
74. █ Some source must provide variation 4067.
75. █ In the ultrastable system the arrangement is DIAGRAM 4166.
76. █ The self locking, ultrastable system deduced from four postulates. DIAGRAM 4158.
77. █ The various aspects of the behaviour of the adapting system seen from the new point of view, 4164.
78. █ Instability as a danger, 4163.
79. █ A thermostat has DIAGRAM 4166.
80. █ The environment should be divided into (a) what the brain can affect (b) the rest. 4168.
81. █ Derivation of DIAGRAM from six postulates, 4179.
82. █ The self-locking system will often be, internally, self-coordinating 4181.
83. █ Conditions for self-locking, 4229.
84. █ [SHORTHAND] Canonical equations [when] system as does essential variables separated. 4238.
85. █ Essentail variables of different orders, 4262.
86. █ 'Knowing' means controlling, 4292.
87. █ Ultrastable system cannot stop until "Cortex" "knows" environment. 4294.
88. █ Speed of adaptation demands trials, 4385.
89. █ Example of how the existence of a constraint can shorten a search, 4548.
90. █ The variety may perhaps be supplied in the mammalian brain by its "diffuse" system 4820.
91. █ Ultrastability can be shown with various types of system, discrete, two-valved, determinate etc 4906.
92. █ The essential variables may act as a gate to which the rest will habituate 3058.
93. █ The essentail variables may work by intermittently forcing themselves to take the values they should have 3059.
94. █ Review of relations between multistable system, environment, and specialised essential variables, 3281.
95. █ The "law" of a system (or set of systems) far from the atomic level can be found only empirically. 5115.
96. █ DAMS resumed, in Aug '56, after neglect since Mar '53. 5279.
97. █ DAMS was built by an ignoramus 6017.