[Avery Andrews 930915,1309]
(Rick Marken (930914.1900))
>What if the behavior of a negative feedback closed loop system happens to
>be non-causal? Should we lie about it or conceal it?
No need to lie, or be sarcastic, but there is also no need to go on and
on about it, in abstract discussions. When somebody does something dumb
in a concrete analysis of something is when it's time to speak up. In
an abstract discussion, it's very hard to know what somebody thinks
they mean by a word like `cause', so it's pretty pointless to make
a fuss about it (it seems to me that causality talk has basically
been obsolete since Newton, anyway, but that's a different issue).
This discussion seems to be going the way of many, wherein PCT people
seem to want to perceive themselves as clearly enunciating the
principles of PCT, rather than figuring out what actually is on the
other person's mind, and seeing whether there is a difference between
that and any claim of PCT.
Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au