[From: Bruce Nevin (Thu 930325 12:25:05)]
I hadn't meant to sound so querulous when I complained about
being ignored. (And thanks, Clark!) I realize there are many
Important Perceptions being controlled with fairly high gain on
the list. It is not the lack of response that was getting to me,
but the responses that ignored most of what I was saying, and the
feeling that somewhere down the road I would get from Bill more
of the same "I don't know about this social norms stuff, it seems
like you're just doing that conventional statistical study stuff
and dressing it up in PCT jargon with no real change" and zippo
from anyone else. As if I had never said anything to show the
basis in PCT for what I am concerned with. So the complaint was
an intemperate reaction of frustration, and this is to focus it
lest it cause more trouble than that which occasioned it.
[ Gary Cziko 930323.1700 GMT ] --
The driver of the car "participates" in the movement of the car
in various ways, for example by leaning into curves. The driver
tilts her head on curves, and probably also in other acceleration
(starts and stops). Passengers don't. This is probably why
people who experience motion sickness as passengers do not as
drivers. I suspect the controlled perception is the attitude of
the inner ear with respect to the center of gravity.
Bruce
bn@bbn.com