ABSTRACT
Factors controlling differentiation may be roughly grouped, according to the time required for their reversal. At one extreme is the irreversible loss of genetic material in such organisms as Ascaris, or permanent repression of a portion of the genome as in, perhaps, the repressed X of a female mammal. In nets of 10 elements and 1,024 phase relations, the typical number of phase relations on a cycle is about 10 to 20. The results are sufficient to show that the restricted behaviors of randomly constructed nets of binary elements appear to generalize to nets of nonlinear, continuous, deterministic components. Nets with 4 elements and 16 possible phase states occupy, on the average, 8 phase states in 60,000 iterations. The average total number of states occupied by a net of 10 elements and 1,024 states is 224. Orderly behavior in randomly constructed dynamic nets is to be expected.
