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Rick Marken (930123.1100)
>"Feedback informaiton enables a system to react to events after they
>have occurred.
So here we have the event blunder. I'd say something along the lines
that events are useful for certain purposes, but we can't assess their
overall role adequately without properly understanding the continuous
aspect of things.
>However, for a system to adapt efficiently in a variable
>environment, it must also be able to anticipate what is likely to happen
>in the future. Most human behavior is anticipary in nature.
I'd be happy with this if they replaced `most' with `much'.
>"Behavior patterns are a function of the informational-behavioral
>transations with the environment"
Gobbledeygook (we agree here, I think)
>"Human sensori-perceptual capabilities are designed to collect information
>useful for GUIDING PRACTICAL ACTION in the physically structured and
>dynamically varying terrestrial environment in which humans evolved"
>p 22 emphasis mine
Hmm. This sounds fine to me, at least if `are designed to collect' is replaced
by `have been selected for success in collecting'.
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