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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:12:58 EST
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- Subject: Re: Study PCT first. Then make revolution.
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- [Martin Taylor 921110 10:00]
- (Dag Forssell 921109)
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- >PCT shows clearly that people attend to that which they are concerned
- >about.
-
- That's one claim I've never heard on CSG-L before, and I don't believe it to
- be true. Most of the perceptions that are under good control are not in
- attention, and I'm not at all sure that "concern" is an attribute of an
- Elementary Control System. Where emotions and such feelings come into HPCT
- is a very interesting and hardly touched area.
-
- The only description within PCT that comes close to the concept of "attend"
- is, so far as I know, based around the core concept that there are far more
- sensory degrees of freedmon than effector degrees of freedom. The
- discrepancy ensures that there are far more potentially controllable
- perceptions than are being controlled at any moment. It might be tempting
- to identify "attention" with the controlled perceptions, but I think it
- would be wrong to do so. Subjectively, attention seems more associated
- with changes in which perceptions are being actively controlled, and thus
- with the (unspecified) mechanism by which the control shifts among the
- controllable perceptions.
-
- >PCT is much more than a matter of faith. There is a lot of very hard
- >evidence for those who are willing to look. PCT is knowledge, more
- >certain than most.
-
- Yes, but there's still an awful leap of faith from there to
- >If you learn PCT first, everything will fall in place, your special
- >interest included, whatever it is.
-
- Nothing wrong with having faith, but recognize it for what it is.
-
- Martin
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