Audio interviews with Bill Powers available

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[from Gary Cziko 2007/08/01 10:30 CDT]

Last July at the 2006 CSG meeting in Guangzhou, China and again last week at the 2007 CSG meeting in St. Paul, MN, Lloyd Klinedinst and I interviewed Bill Powers on the origins, development, current state and future of PCT.

The first interview covers the origins of PCT through the publication of Behavior: The Control of Perception in 1973. The second interview covers the time period since the publication of this book until the present.

The audio files (MP3) of these two interviews, each about an hour in length, can be accessed via the Wikipedia article on PCT under “External links” located at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_control_theory#External_links

It is found on the page at:

Audio

  • Interview with William T. Powers on origin and history of PCT (Part One - 20060722 (58.7M)

  • Interview with William T. Powers on origin and history of PCT (Part Two - 20070728 (
    57.7M)

The direct links to the audio files are:

Part 1: http://klinedinst.com/BillPowersAudioInterview.mp3
Part 2:
http://klinedinst.com/BillPowersAudioInterview2.mp3

I think that these interviews are quite interesting for anyone interested PCT, and you are getting it directly from the “horse’s mouth” (why do we say that?).

Thanks to Lloyd and Bill for making these interviews possible.

Enjoy!

–Gary

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[From Rick Marken (2007.08.01.1050)]

Gary Cziko (2007/08/01 10:30 CDT)

Last July at the 2006 CSG meeting in Guangzhou, China and again last week at
the 2007 CSG meeting in St. Paul, MN, Lloyd Klinedinst and I interviewed
Bill Powers on the origins, development, current state and future of PCT.

In the second interview Bill mentions Paul Bohannan, an anthropologist
at Northwestern who got interested in Bill's stuff. He ended up at
USC and I tried to make contact with him when I got back to LA but, as
I recall, he was just retiring at the time (about 1986) and not very
interested in talking about B:CP. Coincidentally, I happened to see in
the LA Times this morning Paul Bohannan's obituary. He died of
Alzheimer's a couple days ago. It was a major obit; a 1/2 page spread.
Of course, no mention of PCT. I don't usually read the obituary
section so it is kind of a major coincidence that I happened to see
Bohannan's obit this morning and then listened to him mentioned in
Bill's reminiscences a couple hours later.

This is the second major coincidence in just two days. The first, of
course, was the tragic fall of the I-35 bridge. We were less than a
mile from that bridge just a week earlier. When I first heard the
report (while listening to a local right wing radio station -- another
coincidence since I blame the Republicans for this catastrophe, since
they have been wasting billions that could have been used to maintain
and improve our crumbling infrastructure to pay Halliburton to restore
the infrastructure we destroyed in country that was no threat to us,
had nothing to do with 9/11 and that is now a recruiting poster for
terrorists) I thought it was the bridge between the East and West bank
of the U which was a bridge I used all the time and that I know Gary
and his wife were on when they were at the conference.

Anyway, thanks for the interview, Lloyd and Gary. I know most of this
stuff already but it's great to have the archive "from the horse's
mouth" (I think the phrase originated in horse racing; something about
looking in the horse's mouth to determine something about the horse's
racing capability).

Best

Rick

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--
Richard S. Marken PhD
Lecturer in Psychology
UCLA
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