[From Rick Marken (960802.1445)]
Bill Powers (960208.0800 MDT) to Hans Blom (960801b) --
I object to your saying that you compare MCT with behavior. You do not.
You compare it with made-up examples and subjective anecdotes, all selected
and described so as to fit your theoretical expectations. You have not
offered one bit of real observational data.
Is there an echo in here? I could swear I just heard someone (could it have
been me?;-)) say:
You [Hans] have never presented an example of a behavioral phenomenon (Y)
that can be mimiced by an MCT model and _not_ by a PCT model. You have talked
about "walking in the dark" and you've given vague descriptions of tracking
tasks as examples of tasks that (you say) can be handled by MCT but not PCT.
But you have never shown an experiment where a working MCT model behaves like
a living system and a PCT model doesn't.
Best
Yodelin' Rick Marken