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Here is some tentative advert wording. The stuff in brackets should maybe
be omitted as taking up too much space - I don't have time for psycholloquy,
so I don't know the format of such adverts in it. Otherwise my
inclination is to keep it pretty straight & administrative in nature.
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It is generally thought that feedback control is well-understood and
thoroughly integrated into the modern behavioral sciences. But there
are some indications that it is not in fact quite as well-understood
as one might expect. [For example, with the revival of interest
in `Central Pattern Generators' in the 1970s, one possibility that
does not seem to have occurred to people is that a CPG might function
by delivering time-varying set-points to feedback mechanisms, thereby
reducing the need to pre-compute parameters for motor-programs. In
fact, even today, it is not clear that this rather simple possibility
is clearly formulated in the standard literature, and adequately
investigated in cases where it has some degree of prima facie
plausibility.]
CSGNet is a group of people interested in aggressively investigating
the application of closed-loop models to all areas of psychology,
broadly construed, following the general lead of the
work of William T. Powers. Its current discussants include
psychologists, linguists, sociologists, control-system engineers, ...
[not sure how to go on here].
Its postings appear in the Usenet newsgroup bit.... [not sure what
here], and it may be subcribed to by sending a message to g-cziko....