[From Rick Marken (2007.01.16.1020)]
Rick Marken (2007.01.16.0900)]
Bill Powers (2007.01.16.0615 EST)
But perceiving things differently can easily be responsible for the generation of the reference signals that cause the conflict, so the conflict results from the difference in perceptions.
Which is something I obviously know. To say now that that is what you were talking about all along is just, well, insulting. I guess you're confident that it's your science I care about and not your approach to scientific dialog.
It should also be pointed out that conflict usually _doesn't_ result from a difference in perceptions at the higher levels that generate the reference signals for lower level systems. Saying that the conflict results from a difference in perceptions controlled by the systems that generate the reference signals that cause the conflict is somewhat misleading, for two reasons: 1) it suggests that the conflict could be solved by controlling the same rather than different perceptions at this higher level, which is not the case and 2) it suggests that conflict always results from control of different perceptions at this higher level, which is also not the case since (according to the model) higher level systems control _many_ different perceptions -- as many as there are systems at that level -- and this rarely results in conflict (see my Excel hierarchy demo where 6 level 2 systems control 6 different perceptions by setting the references for 6 level 1 systems with no conflict expressed in any of the level 1 systems, and the same for levels 3 and 2).
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Rick (sticking with the model) Marken
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