[from eetu pikkarainen 2017-01-29]
Thank you Fred, good questions!
I thik it depends on how and how strictly we define “control”.
We can say that control is something in the loop (which requires the whole loop) or it is something which the loop does or which happens every where around the loop.
I think this whole thing at the moment in the next way:
The existence, life, action and wellbeing of the living organism depends mostly on on thing: its relationship with its environment - not the environment as such.
What the organism perceives (experiences, senses) is just parts of that relationship.
The organism has to (try to) keep the relationship in such nature and such limits that its life (existence, action) can continue.
The organism “controls” its perceptions i.e. checks their compatibility with its internal goals.
Partly its goal are determined by its internal (homeostatic) structure and the requirements of the continuation of its life, and partly it can “set” goals by itself.
According to the results of the “control” it “adjusts” its output (doings, behavior).
By its behavior it “affects” parts of its environment when it tries to “regulate” its relationship to the environment: the property, CEV, target etc. which caused the original goal-incompatible perception.
When some disturbation again changes the relationship so that perception becomes back unwanted, the new “regulation” should “cancel” the effect of disturbance. When the organism learns more it could be even able to “predict”
some distributions and cancel them in advance.
So the loop is not symmetric and homogeny, there happens different events in different places.
But in everyday speech we often call many of these or even all of these “control”. And I have a feeling that this happens also in these discussions?
(Note, I am not engineer, not English speaker and not even a psychologist, so these terms can be selected all wrong!)
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Eetu
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Lähetetty: 29. tammikuuta 2017 16:51
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