[from Mary Powers 990805]
The CSG meeting was from July 21-25, 1999. Most presentations were more in
the line of offering a topic for discussion rather than presenting a
finished work. Here are some of the topics covered:
The method of levels: some cases (Carey)
Bullying: what are bullies controlling for and how do you find out? (Carey)
PCT and Modern Control Theory: what happened to classical control theory
and why? (Powers)
Child development and PCT: how, when, and what do you teach your children
or grandchildren about PCT (Robertson)
"What I learned about PCT": and would like to teach other people (Forssell)
Review of "Making Sense of Behavior": offered for critique (Klinedinst)
Control Theory economics: developing a model based on WTP's father's work
(Marken)
from The Experimental Analysis of Behavior to Perceptual Control Theory:
issues of continuous vs. discrete variables, simultaneity vs. causation,
s-r vs. closed loop, and "subjective" perception vs. objectivity (Cherpas)
Full scale demo of the Little Man and how it is organized (Powers)
Business meeting:
We are solvent.
We hope to meet in the east next year but it depends on the folks there to
find a suitable (affordable) location.
We would like to meet in June.
Fall-back location if necessary: St. Louis
The president-elect is Autumn Winter. The president is now Lloyd
Klinedinst. The sec'y/treas is Rick Marken.
Thank you to the outgoing president, Christine Forssell, for her chairing
of the meeting.
Thank you also to Autumn Winter for organizing the conference. That was a
good banquet!
Mary P.