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  • Papers and even articles do not necessarily state things like transcriptional network motifs include feed-forward loops and multi-input motifs and such loops and motifs argue for modular cellular networks.

    Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds 2008

  • Partly this is because we are seeing ultra fine details of the processes and have feed-forward and feed-back negotiations and conversations about them.

    All In The Family 2009

  • "For decades, the cognitive and neural sciences have treated mental processes as though they involved passing discrete packets of information in a strictly feed-forward fashion from one cognitive module to the next or in a string of individuated binary symbols — like a digital computer," said Spivey.

    Causal Consciousness – Science of Mind 2005

  • Anyway, she had a exciting presentation on feed-forward loops in relation to evolution, and showed correlation between jumps in FFL motifs with biodiversity.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Egon Willighagen 2007

  • For example Ramsey et al. (1991) have argued that certain feed-forward nets show that simple cognitive tasks can be performed without employing features that could correspond to beliefs, desires and plans.

    Connectionism Garson, James 2007

  • This is contrary to the standard cog-sci "modular" or "binary" feed-forward information processing model.

    Causal Consciousness – Science of Mind 2005

  • Being a feed-forward mechanism, this would be a tough thing to overcome as a group.

    Inflammation and diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

  • Anyway, she had a exciting presentation on feed-forward loops in relation to evolution, and showed correlation between jumps in FFL motifs with biodiversity.

    CompLife2007, Utrecht/NL. Day 1 and 2 Egon Willighagen 2007

  • The “calorie is a calorie” idea also implies that we are a feed-forward system calories in, calories out, net loss.

    Thermodynamics and weight loss | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

  • The system of checks and balances pre-dates the official establishment of the field of cybernetics, but the complex nature of self-regulating systems and the need to preclude runaway feed-forward loops was known to those prescient men of the Enlightenment.

    Balkinization 2007

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