kugler et al

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It might be worth figuring out where Turvey et. al. get the following
absurd idea from:

  "In control theory, the command-algorithm is separate from the power-flux
   that it modulates; in the neurophysiology of movement, the central
   nervous system is held conceptually separate from the skeletomuscular
   apparatus that peforms the movement"

  Kugler, Scott, Kelso and Turvey (1980) `On the Concept of Coordinative
   Structures as Dissipative Structures', in Stelmach & Requin (eds)
   Tutorials in Motor Behavior, North Holland 3-48.

Absurd because people like Rack, etc. go to great lengths to establish
the physical properties of the power-generators, and their effects
on the properties of feedback loop.

Probably out of the same vein as the PCT criticisms that Rick regales us
with.

Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au

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[Avery.Andrews 930123.1130]

Rick's reading of Kugler et. al. may well be right, but I think mine might
be too. I would have thought that those people would like PCT-ish
theories because there isn't any `algorithm' being executed by an
agent that is distinct from the representation of the algorithm, but
evidently not. I've tracked down a gettable copy of Stelmach 1978,
so maybe we can pursue this issue when I'm better informed.

Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au