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The following websites provide demonstrations of the mechanism of perceptual control. Repository of computer programs developed by WIlliam T. Powers, referenced in Living Control Systems III. https://sites.google.com/site/perceptualcontroldemos/ Adam Matic’s demo programs for your browser are […]
Spiritual truths, 21st Century Renaissance, Computer Games, Pop and Rock Music, & more! […]
To manage a successful business, you need to know what people want, how your business is perceived, and how to deal with people. It’s ripe for a PCT approach! […]
In explaining how living things control their perception, PCT is clearly highly relevant to psychology. Contemporary articles are making the case to the wider establishment that closed-loop, circular causality is much closer to how living systems actually function than the approach researchers still use. […]
When people find themselves struggling control has been disrupted. It is the loss of control not control, therefore, that is the problem when people are psychologically distressed. […]
PCT takes a strongly scientific approach to human nature. It proposes that people and other living systems are purposeful – and that the systems that are responsible for purposeful action are explainable in mechanistic terms. […]
Method of Levels introductory text to follow
Latest discussions in the Method of Levels section on Discourse […]
Sociology involves understanding how people behave in groups, including how they communicate and interact with one another. PCT provides a way to understand how people’s goals operate when in groups, and we can use computers […]
Join us for the International Conference on Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) from November 13-15, 2024, with an additional annual meeting for IAPCT members & enthusiasts on November 18. This hybrid event offers both online and face-to-face programming in Perth, Australia, featuring a diverse range of speakers and topics. […]
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At present the application of PCT to Religion is also at its early stages. One exception is Lynndal Daniels’ blog on PCT and Buddhism, which links the Method of Levels, a psychotherapy that is a direct application of Perceptual […]
The following is from Richard S. Marken: Dr. David M. Goldstein, an early and enthusiastic supporter of PCT– his support began in 1980 – passed away on October 5, 2022. David was a colleague of […]
Martin Taylor Outline: Human Data Fusion 1. Introduction to concepts of Perceptual Control Theory.2. The Perceptual Control Hierarchy: Conflict and Learning.3. Information overload and modes of human perception.4. Side Effects of Perceptual Control: Stealth and […]
Perceptual Control Theory is taught at the University of Manchester as a component of the Psychology degree. In a student group research project, we have analysed the facilitaors and obstacles to learning PCT – click here for […]
Warren Mansell
Warren Mansell
R. Young and J. Illingworth
Moore, Roger K. (2007)
Richard Kennaway
Roger K. Moore, Mauro Nicolao
About Bill Powers Contents Page Foreword In 1979, Bill Powers wrote a prophecy: “A scientific revolution is just around the corner, and anyone with a personal computer can participate in it…. [T]he particular subject matter […]
August 29, 1026 – May 24, 2013 Bill provided this autobiographical sketch in July, 2006: I was in the Navy from age 17 to 19 (1944 to 1946), which is where I learned electronics, […]
Martin M. Taylor (1995) Fitting data to models, Presentation to CSG 2005
Martin Taylor (1993) OCR from scan of South African Journal of Psychology, 1973, 3, 23-45 M.M.TAYLOR. DCIEM, Box 2000, Downsview, Ontario ABSTRACT In J. G. Taylor’s Behavioural Theory of Perception there is a problem in […]
Robert Griffiths, Vyv Huddy, Stuart Eaton, Jasmine Waldorf, Warren Mansell ABSTRACT This book considers how principles derived from a theory of human behaviour – Perceptual Control Theory – can be configured to create mental health […]
Martin Taylor (1992) Principles for intelligent human-computer interaction: a tutorial on layered protocol theory., DCIEM Report 93-32, Dept. Nat. Defence Canada.
Martin Taylor (2005) In a 2005 presentation to the CSGnet Annual Meeting, I argued that protocols and collective control allow for the creation of organisations that are control systems, complete and entire, with people as […]
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