William T. Powers
A short post to the Control System Group network (CSGnet) on the difference between cataloging behaviors and modeling systems that use behaviors to control perceptions.
Biology & Neuroscience
‘Coming Full Circle’: Is Control More Important Than Prediction?
Warren Mansell
Bill Powers
Experience, Reality, and HPCT
A short post to CSGnet on how we think about our senses, our experiences, and how we draw conclusions about the reality we live in (or whether we think we observe reality directly and merely need to report what we observe. […]
Bill Powers
Volition: a Semi-Scientific Essay
Every child wonders, sooner or later, how it is that simply wanting one’s hands, arms, legs, body, head, or eyes to move suffices to create the wanted result…. — So begins this lovely essay and overview of the fundamental issues that cry out for answers. […]