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Jacques Loeb’s investigations into the behavior of numerous lower organisms are justly famous. In particular, he carefully documented the way in which the orientation of bilaterally symmetrical lower animals depended on light, i.e. phototropism, a phenomenon that the botanist Julius Sachs had studied in plants. And Loeb’s systematic monograph, Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative Psychology published at the dawn of the twentieth century (Loeb, 1900), made his work popular with researchers in various fields.
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Cordeschi, R. (2002). Chemical Machines and Action Systems. In: The Discovery of the Artificial. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9870-5_1
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