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The system then searches new configurations until homeostasis resumes.\n\n## Exact primary works and passages\n\nThe primary work is Ashby, W. R. (1952). Design for a Brain: The Origin of Adaptive Behavior. Chapman & Hall. A second edition appeared in 1960.\n\nVerifiable passages include descriptions of the homeostat on pages around 101 in editions referenced in secondary sources. The text defines the brain problem as the origin of adaptive behavior. It proposes a solution through machine mechanisms that exhibit stability restoration.\n\nNo page-specific verbatim quote beyond the title and chapter structure is extracted from public indexes here. The book itself serves as the source object.\n\n## Convergence patterns the work touches\n\nThe work evidences structural patterns of flow networks and bounded chaos. Feedback loops form networks. Random search within bounds produces stable attractors. 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