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Because of the dromic character of purposive activities, the closed circuits sustaining them and their interaction can be treated topologically. It is found that to the value anomaly, whenA is preferred toB,B toC, butC toA, there corresponds a diadrome, or circularity in the net which is not the path of any drome and which cannot be mapped without a diallel on a surface sufficient to map the dromes. Thus the apparent inconsistency of preference is shown to indicate consistency of an order too high to permit construction of a scale of values, but submitting to finite topological analysis based on the finite number of nervous cells and their possible connections.
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McCulloch, W. S. and W. Pitts. 1943. “A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity.”Bull. Math. Biophysics,5, 115–133.
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McCulloch, W.S. A heterarchy of values determined by the topology of nervous nets. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 7, 89–93 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478457
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478457