# A Puzzling Tale, Differnet Worlds

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**Category:** CSG1998\
**Created:** [April 23, 1998, 3:43pm UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/a-puzzling-tale-differnet-worlds/594 "1998-04-23T15:43:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 1998, 3:43pm UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/a-puzzling-tale-differnet-worlds/594/1 "1998-04-23T15:43:20Z")

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[From Rick Marken (980423.0745)]

Bruce Gregory (980423.0945 EDT) --

1. The situation you describe [Bruce Gregory (980423.0650 EDT)] is  
not a conflcit. The car going 25 mph is just a disturbance to  
a perception you want to control (your speed).

2. One symptom of terminal Bruce Abbott's disease is answering  
substantive posts with cute, non-substantive stories. I suggest  
that you check into your nearest PCT clininc immediately;-)

Oded Maler (980423-II)--

> Why not that at some time T one has a perception of "the right  
> time to do sex" and the other not, and they both control for  
> "do the right thing"?

This would work too.

I didn't say that conflict \_could not\_ happen as a result of  
systems controlling different perceptions. Actually, this is  
exactly what happens in my "Cost of Conflict" demo; in that  
case the conflict results from the way the systems are connected  
to the environmental variables; the system controlling in x cannot  
help but \_actively\_ interfere with system controlling in y, and  
vice versa! (I think this kind of hook up would produce a conflict  
between systems controlling x+y and x-y, too). So controlling  
\_different\_ perceptions doesn't guarantee that there will be no  
conflict. My point is that controlling the \_same\_ perceptions in  
the same world makes conflicts more likely.

PCT suggests that human problems result, not from the fact that  
we live in different perceptual worlds, but from the fact that  
we live in (and control perceptions of) the \_same\_ physical world.

Best

Rick

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