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 | a particular structure attainable by an adaptive plan;  (5, 22) |
 | domain of action of an adaptive plan, the structures it can attain (5, 21) |
 | the particular structure from being tried at time t (15, 22) |
 | that part of the structure directly tested against the environment (23) |
 | the population (set of structures) acted upon by the reproductive plan at time t (88, 91) |
 | controlling sequence for mutation rate (122) |
 | ("initiation condition," "end signal," "predicted value") for behavioral atom (156) |
 | dominance map for ith position of homologous pair of l-tuples (112) |
 | a particular environment of a system undergoing adaptation (4, 25) |
 | possible environments (uncertainty) of adaptive system (4, 25) |
 | the range of signals the adaptive system can receive from the environment (22) |
 | the particular signal received by the adaptive system from the environment at time t (22) |
 | first M positive integers (91) |
 | number of attributes (alleles, etc.) associated with the (ith) detector (gene, etc.) (21, 72) |
 | number of detectors (genes, etc.) used in the representation of structures in (66) |