A mature admission of error

[From RIck Marken (941229.1045)]

Martin Taylor (941228.1620), imitating my younger brother Larry,
says:

Then get Rick to fix up his, too. I'll add whatever he does.

"Papa" Bill Powers (941229.0800 MST) replies:

Here's Rick's:

intrinsic intrinsic
reference -->C<------ perception---------
            > ^
      intrinsic error |
            v |
         perceptual |
          control physiological |
         hierarchy---side effects-->physiological
          > ^ variables
          > >
          v |
       outside world

He, too, needs a direct connection from "outside word" to "physiological
variables." I would prefer to see this:

intrinsic intrinsic
reference -->C<------ perception---------
            > ^
      intrinsic error |
            v |
         perceptual |
          control |
         hierarchy physiological
          > ^ variables
          > > ^
          v | side-effects |
          world ------------------------
                     of control

.. where "world" includes all that is not nervous system.

I agree that this is much better; a similar change should also be made
in my diagram of Bruce's reorganization model, viz.:

                                     >
                                     >
                    random |
                +---->parameter -----|----------
                ^ variation | |
                > > >
                e | v
                > > Nutrient Control
                > > System
                > > ^ |
                > > side | V
    r(survive)->C <--p (survival) <--|------ world
                                      effects
                                     of control

How's that "Papa" Bill? See, I'm better than Lar... er.. Martin! Me, me.

Best

Rick "Mature" Marken