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| ====Functional cycle====
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| The relations beween subject and object are best shown by the diagram of the functional cycle. If this illustrates how the subject and the object are dovetailed into one another, to constitute a systematic whole.
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| If we further consider that a subject is related to the same or to different objects bt several functional cycle, we shall gain insight into the first Principle of Umwelt thory: all animals, from the simplest to the most complex, are fitted into their unique worlds with equal completeness. A simple world corresponds to a simple animal, a well-articulated world to a complex one. --Jakob von Uexküll, 11page, a Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men
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| The whole rich world around the Tick shrinks and changes into a scanty framework consisting, in essence, of three receptor cues and three effector cues - her Umwelt. --Jakob von Uexküll, 12page, a Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men
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