[From Bruce Abbott (961127.1840 EST)]
Rick Marken (961127.1220) --
Bruce Abbott (961126.0900 EST)
How do you select remembered reference specifications for perceptions?
I don't know.
How were you able to imagine what the perceptual consequences of controlling
these perceptions would be for another person? How were you able to turn
these into reference specifications for exactly the right control systems?
I don't know.
These seem to be serious gaps in what was supposed to be an HPCT-based
explanation, if I understood you correctly. There seems to be a whole
process by which reference specifications emerge as needed, with no
mechanism or mechanisms being offered whereby it might be carried out. I
dare say that it hardly seems less speculative than the little story I
offered . . . Or did I miss something?
Tell me about some of the empirical observations you see as offering
difficulties for HPCT as now constructed.
Any empirical observation that differs from the predictions of HPCT would
cause difficulties for HPCT. There are, thus, an infinite number of
observations that, were they made, would create difficulties for HPCT. For
example, someone might observe an organism controlling a variable that it
cannot perceive. That would create a BIG problem for HPCT.
Yes, that is understood, but it is not what I asked. What empirical
observations DO you see as offering difficulties for HPCT as now
constructed? Surely after 14 or so years you've run into _some_.
Regards,
Bruce