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- From: marken@aero.org (Richard Marken)
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- Subject: Re: citations;social;Gabriel
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 22:01:49 GMT
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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- I'm going out of town until next week but before I go I've
- just got to make one quick comment on:
-
- John Gabriel to Tom Bourbon (921216 11:54 CST)
-
- >And Bill P's
- >obervation that you can only act on what you perceive goes to the
- >heart of matter. It is exactly why the light that Shannon sheds
- >on reliable perception is important.
-
- I think Plato predated Bill P. in this observation. Bill P.'s
- important observation was that perception is one link in a
- causal loop in which we are all locked -- a loop that obviates
- Shannon's concerns about reliable transmission since, in living
- systems, perception is not the "start" of communication (or the
- "end", for that matter); it is both the start and the end at the
- same time. The excitement about information theory in psychology
- was based on PRECISELY the model of organisms that is disposed
- of by PCT ; INPUT --- CHANNEL -- OUTPUT. Shannon is great for
- ATT but not for PCT.
-
- Regards
-
- Rick
-
-