[Mark Lazare (2005.01.18.1155) ]
[From Rick Marken (2005.01.18.0820)]
RICK
It’s a very nice diagram but I don’t see what the third dimension brings to
this representation. There is a two dimensional version of this in the
learning chapter of B:CP.
What the 3rd dimension brings is way to represent how reorganization might actually work, in a model not just from a metaphor or an armchair.
Rick
Basically you have got a reorganization system (the system in the back in
the diagram) acting (in a manner not specified) to keep the integrated error
in the foreground control system at X10 (which I believe should be a
constant and zero; calling it X suggests that it is a variable).
First Y9 is the reference that is compared to the integration factor’s residual error. I am postulating that each controlled activity has an acceptable level of error. We routinely accept less than perfect. Also, we accept relatively greater error on each higher level (X) or conversely we expect tighter control on each lower level. No living system has an error signal as a constant zero and certainly not zero error at every level.
As you go up the hierarchy you must build in greater level of “acceptable error across a level� (X) or you would be in constant reorganization (crisis).
Rick
I think it’s unlikely that the reorganization would produce random changes in the reference, >perceptual and output signal, as stated on the diagram.
Frankly I think you are wrong. Think about some of questions from RTP
Is what you are doing working�
Is what you are doing getting you what you want?
Is what you are doing making you happy or content?
If the answer to all the above is no, then right, wrong or indifferent you will have to do something different.
Change how or what you perceive, change your expectation, or change what you are doing. Changing any one of these will change how you feel about the situation. Reducing the acceptable level of residual error (Y) and error across a given level (X). And yes I believe both are variable between people but may be constant or innate for an individual.
But how to choose what to change is a guess or a random act of reorganization
Sincerely,

Mark A. Lazare, Managing Partner
Compass Mental Health, LLC
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