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- From: Avery Andrews <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: throwing stones from glass houses
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- [Avery Andrews 930123.930]
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- One problem with my writing the contra-feedback myths article is that
- in many respects I'm in the same situation as the people I'd be criticizing.
- E.g. in my post about the Schmidt article I said that you needed a
- high-gain system to correct small errors, but while walking the dog
- this morning I realized that the magnitude of the disturbing forces
- is what matters, not the absolute size of the errors.
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- One of the obstacles to PCT understanding is perhaps that it is a
- profoundly Newtonian theory, while most people's world views
- are pre-Newtonian, and the Newtonian picture is *hard* to acquire.
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- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
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