[From: Bruce Nevin (950322 13:44:17 EDT)]
( Paul Stokes (950321) 1045 GMT) ) --
There have been discussions bearing on your questions. Look in the intro
message about how to search the archives, then search the archives for
keywords like social. There are some papers by people that Bill P.
mentioned, which you can get from the same places as you get the demos.
What does PCT say about how people perceive their relationships with
others? If people control the state of their relationships with others,
which perceived relational qualities are the object of that control?
Is there a way to detect or 'measure' these?
This is a very complex area. Picking out of it something modelable, I
would like to get to a place where I could model individuals doing x in
the same manner as another does, perhaps by modifications to the crowd
program. Among the variable means for "doing x" an individual chooses a
narrowed range of variability as witnessed in the behavioral outputs of
certain other individuals--or cleaves instead to a different narrowed
range of variability previously established as a norm (or possibly
created by way of controlling a perception of not conforming to a norm).
It is perhaps out of such gestures of solidarity that qualitative,
feeling aspects of relationships arise. They can be observed, but go on
mostly out of awareness.
Bruce