Warrigal comments on Open Thread: August 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2009 04:45:59AM 0 points [-]

Where can I read more about perceptual control theory? I'd like a description of reshuffling more detailed than "stuff gets reshuffled".

Comment author: pjeby 05 August 2009 02:07:53AM 0 points [-]

I'd like a description of reshuffling more detailed than "stuff gets reshuffled".

This page and this page offer some information, although neither is as good as the relevant chapter of B:CP. (Also, the second of those two pages is missing spaces at times, apparently due to a botched conversion from some non-HTML format.)

Comment author: SilasBarta 07 August 2009 04:25:37AM 1 point [-]

Thanks, this is much more interesting and informative about what specifically PCT claims. No offense, but I wish your explanations from before had been more like this; they're what I was looking for in terms of the critical inferential steps that get you into the PCT way of thinking,

Btw, I saw you brought PCT up more recently in the correlation thread, and thought you were unfairly taken down to -1 a few times -- some people are being a little too negative about the topic, and that's coming from someone who's been quite critical about it before!

Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 August 2009 08:48:32AM *  0 points [-]

Where can I read more about perceptual control theory?

At the links I posted here. I also recommend Bill Powers' books 1, 2, 3. (Note: I wrote the appendix to the last of those and so get a small proportion of the royalties. Buy a copy and buy me my next designer coffee!)