[From Rick Marken (2003.10.09.1320)]
Bill Powers (2003.10.09.0820 MDT)--
The control process I have been referring to goes like this. You wish to
communicate an experience to someone else, say the experience of seeing a
lion loose in your front yard and desiring very strongly that it or you be
elsewhere. You start with the image of the lion...The process is easiest to
see when you have to make adjustments to the meaning of a communication
before you're satisfied that it means what you intend it to mean.
You description of "describing" certainly fits my experience (and understanding)
of the process.
Another way to see this control process process is by watching what happens when a
witness tries to describe to a police artist another person's face. It's a very
impressive demonstration of adjusting words to point to a perception. It could
also be the basis for a nice experiment in communication, perhaps. Ask a person
to describe a known object (or even a higher level perception, like a principle)
to another person and see how the speaker adjusts his or her communication in
order to get the listener to select the correct perception rom among several
alternatives.
Best regards
Rick
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Richard S. Marken, Ph.D.
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