William T. Powers
A hard-hitting essay by the creator of PCT on what you see when you look at behavior through the eyes of a physical scientist.
Bill Powers
Perceptual Control Theory at 40
This intro to PCT is slanted toward those coming into to this subject from the physical sciences. Bill Powers develops an argument that leads from conventional views of behavior to the new view that PCT gives us, emphasizing in the end the odd role that organisms, seen through the eyes of PCT, play in a world otherwise dominated by physical laws. The point will be to show that control theory provides us with the germ of a radically new understanding, a break with all traditional theories of behavior—and many new ones as well […]
Bill Powers
BYTE Articles
The BYTE articles are a book unto themselves – a four-part introduction to PCT and modeling. […]
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. […]