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- From: Avery Andrews <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: camps
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- Rick Marken (930123.1100)
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- >"Feedback informaiton enables a system to react to events after they
- >have occurred.
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- So here we have the event blunder. I'd say something along the lines
- that events are useful for certain purposes, but we can't assess their
- overall role adequately without properly understanding the continuous
- aspect of things.
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- >However, for a system to adapt efficiently in a variable
- >environment, it must also be able to anticipate what is likely to happen
- >in the future. Most human behavior is anticipary in nature.
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- I'd be happy with this if they replaced `most' with `much'.
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- >"Behavior patterns are a function of the informational-behavioral
- >transations with the environment"
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- Gobbledeygook (we agree here, I think)
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- >"Human sensori-perceptual capabilities are designed to collect information
- >useful for GUIDING PRACTICAL ACTION in the physically structured and
- >dynamically varying terrestrial environment in which humans evolved"
- >p 22 emphasis mine
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- Hmm. This sounds fine to me, at least if `are designed to collect' is replaced
- by `have been selected for success in collecting'.
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- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
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