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- From: Avery Andrews <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: reviews & replies
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- [Avery Andrews 930123.1825]
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- I think the reviews & replies proposal is a great opportunity, but it
- also carries a certain risk of getting clobbered again, since the usual
- myths about feedback are probably all out there, & I don't think the
- current range of PCT publications deals with them adequately. So I think
- there's got to be some kind of `myths about feedback' article included
- to function as a preface. Something along the lines of Bill's
- `Objections to PCT posting' (covering feedback too slow and deafferentation),
- but dressed in full academic battle gear.
-
- It might be useful to point out that PCT is basically in the same camp
- as the dynamics crowd (yes, Kugler, Turvey, etc.) as opposed to `orthodox'
- computational cog. sci, if there actually is such a thing anymore (in
- the sense that I suspect that nobody really sees it as The Truth
- anymore, although there are people like me who think that a certain
- amount of useful work can still be done from that point of view).
-
- Something else that might be true, & if so, worth pointing out, is that
- misunderstandings about feedback may well have directed research
- into areas such as acquired skills that arguably involve a lot of
- pre-programming, and away from rountine but non-stereotyped manipulative
- activity.
-
- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
-