Since he was child, Adler had been fascinated by how organisms sense and respond to the environment.

Since the state machine is "feed forward", the organism responds to future events predicted from past data.

The fossil record shows that some organisms respond to profound magnetic variations, but many do not.

All organisms respond in predictable ways to certain stimuli.

The natural environment always contains temperature gradients that organisms could respond to, if it were useful.

All living organisms on Earth have the ability to sense and respond to changes in their internal and external environment.

Metabolic regulation also allows organisms to respond to signals and interact actively with their environments.

Clearly, at such a rate, the organism can respond to only a very limited part of its environment.

We all are interested in common goals, among which are: How do living organisms respond to the space environment?

In addition, organisms with appropriate sensory systems can respond to light in many other ways, employing it as a source of information.