ABSTRACT
My colleagues, notably Dr Cardon, and I have been pursuing a closely coordinated novel view of the complex biological system. This is contained in nine basic reports written for NASA and a number of derived papers that we have given or reported on at various meetings [ 1 ] . I will attempt to give you some sketchy outline of our central ideas up to date. ( It is only fair to the reader and ourselves to state that Dr Cardon and I are physical scientists only recently concerned with biology.)
Starting in our first report-available as a N. Y. Academy of Science review of September 1964-we sought to define the regulating and control functions of the system. as a whole.
