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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:20:16 EST
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- Subject: Re: PCT slogans
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- [Martin Taylor 921110 14:15]
- (Rick Marken 921109.0900 and 921110.0900)
-
- >While walking with me wife this weekend she challenged me to
- >come up with some surprising conclusion derived from PCT that
- >might grab the interest of a layperson. Here's what I came up with.
- >
- >"You can't tell what people are doing by watching what they are doing".
-
- A reference discussed a few months ago:
- Vallacher, R.R. and Wegner, D.M. (1987) "What do people think they're doing?
- Action identification and human behavior" Psychological Review, 94, 3-15
-
- I guess they aren't laypersons, but they aren't PCT persons either. They would
- agree with PCT slogan number one.
-
- >PCT slogan # 2:
- >
- >Belief is the enemy of control.
-
- I would have thought belief to be the essence of control. Belief, to me, is
- a short word for "perception of the current state of whatever is being
- controlled for by this ECS." Alternatively, belief is the concatenation of
- possibly many percepts of the same level. I don't understand the sense in
- which Rick means PCT slogan #2. It is obviously different from what I mean
- by it.
-
- Martin
-