Terminology
Feedback
"Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.[2] The system can then be said to feed back into itself."(Wikipedia)
Homeostasis
"Homeostasis is the state of steady internal conditions maintained by living things.[1] This dynamic state of equilibrium is the condition of optimal functioning for the organism and includes many variables, such as body temperature and fluid balance, being kept within certain pre-set limits (homeostatic range). Other variables include the pH of extracellular fluid, the concentrations of sodium, potassium and calcium ions, as well as that of the blood sugar level, and these need to be regulated despite changes in the environment, diet, or level of activity."(Wikipedia)
Umwelt
"In the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok, umwelt (plural: umwelten; from the German Umwelt meaning "environment" or "surroundings") is the "biological foundations that lie at the very epicenter of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal"."
Organisms
Was bedeutet Organismus?
- Organismus ist ein Begriff aus der Biologie und der Medizin. Er hat mehrere Bedeutungen und bezeichnet
ein einzelnes Lebewesen das System der Organe eines Lebewesens in seiner Gesamtheit allgemein ein System, dessen einzelne Teile im metaphorischen Sinn wie „Organe“ zusammenwirken.