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- Subject: Re: formulations
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- [Martin Taylor 930125 12:15]
- (Rick Marken 930125.0800) to Avery Andrews
-
- >> Perception of the net effects of disturbances on a controlled
- >> variable guides action
- >
- >I hate to be a pain in the ass about this, but that's not quite
- >what I meant either. I meant:
- >
- >Perception (of ANYTHING) does not guide action: action
- >guides (controls) perception.
- >
- >All this is just based on the two basic laws of control system
- >operation:
- >
- >1) p = r
- >
- >2) o = -kd
- >
- >The equals signs are actually approximations (which I can't
- >easily notate on the net) but VERY VERY CLOSE approx-
- >imations when loop gain is HIGH.
-
- A lot of the confusion might perhaps be removed if these laws were always
- accompanied by "in the limit of infinite time." In practice, at the levels
- of our experiments, infinite time is reasonably well approximated in seconds
- or parts of seconds. But the dynamic behaviour of the control loop is
- important. And dynamically, some part of the disturbance DOES appear in p.
- That part is what leads people to think in S-R terms.
-
- You can look at a closed loop starting anywhere, provided you get back to
- where you started before you quit. Rick showed how one can get various
- flavours of psychology by looking only at parts of the loop, in his
- Blind Men and Elephant paper.
-
- The fact that you can start anywhere carries with it the implication
- that effects inserted anywhere have implications all round the loop.
- We prefer to see that changing the reference results in changing the
- percept (which is the point where the loop closes, starting at the
- reference injection at the comparator). One could equally see the
- effects as starting at the disturbance, which is compensated by the
- results of the output on the world. And that's what an outsider
- (experimenter) can see. The basis of The Test is the fact that the
- disturbance has no long-term result in the world. But it does have
- a dynamic effect that depends on the delays, gains, and impedances
- around the loop. That dynamic effect is easily, but misleadingly,
- seen as the effect of stimulus on response.
-
- >From a conventional (S-R) point of view, law 2 is
- >just flat out magic or mysticism. As I said, it is just
- >something that you have to accept (like mass attract-
- >ion) even though it seems to completely contradict
- >everyday experience.
-
- It would be mystical, if there were no way for perception to be
- controlled (if changes in perception were not reflected as error
- that affected output that affected perception). It's the dynamics
- that removes the mystical quality.
-
- Martin
-