ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the major problems of homeostatic control, analyzes some results of simulation of homeostatic control structures, and presents information about applications of homeostatic principles to the problems of technics, medicine, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. It demonstrates that homeostatic control structures the internal contradiction, which is controlled; give them the idea of the principal role of contradiction in homeostats. A living organism is a system of interconnected control structures operating in accordance with their functional intention. The chapter also demonstrates the significance of homeostatic control, which is characteristic of biological processes. The problems of adaptivity and noise immunity for all homeostats are of major significance for understanding control mechanisms. The requirements associated with survivability, adaptivity, and noise immunity of technical systems are becoming more and more rigorous. Natural language is considered as a multilevel, hierarchical, homeostatic system of structures and functions. The chapter considers one application concerning models of expedient collective behavior.
