[from Tracy Harms (19990503.0808)]
Marc Abrams (990502.1850)
In a private post a few days ago Bill, made me aware of something I think is
_extremely_ important. We need to think of what we do in terms of _multiple_
( or moduled ) behaviors. That is we are controlling for many things at the
same time, and because of that are performing many "actions" at the same
time. We do not have _one_ supra high level goal that manages all the other
ones. Yes, we are capable of contradicting ourselves with actions that can
cause internal conflicts and errors.
This is highly compatable with my emphasis on ecology. I think that we do
well to look at any organism (including human organism and human self) in
terms of ecological relationships among manifold perceptual control systems
that are in simultaneous operation.
Eventually it would be appropriate for me to explore what such an
ecological examination leads to, but today I can only point vaguely in that
direction.
Tracy Harms