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It is shown that from the definition of organismic sets (Rashevsky,Organismic Sets. Some Reflections on the Nature of Life and Society, Holland, Michigan, Mathematical Biology, Inc. and Grosse Pointe, Michigan, J. M. Richards Laboratory) a complete sensory deprivation of an organismic set of ordern=2 should result in malfunctioning of the set. A generalization to higher order sets is suggested.
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Rashevsky, N. A remark on sensory deprivation from the point of view of organismic sets. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 34, 439–441 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476706
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476706