By a state of a system is meant any well-defined condition or property that can be recognised if it occurs again. Every system will naturally have many possible states. (W. Ross Ashby)

By a state of a system is meant any well-defined condition or property that can be recognised if it occurs again. Every system will naturally have many possible states.

W. Ross Ashby

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