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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:46:00 CDT
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- From: Tom Bourbon <TBOURBON@UTMBEACH.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Eileen, Theory
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- From Tom Bourbon (921228 9:23)
- Eileen Prince (921226)
- It looks to me as though you are EXACTLY the person to do that article
- for COSMO. That would move COSMOPOLITAN way up on my list, over some
- of the things I read and skimmed during the extended weekend for the
- holidays. If you want to get an idea of what behavioral ald life science
- are like without the realization that living things are in a high-gain
- negative feedback interaction with their environment, try these two
- recent collections:
-
- American Psychologist, Vol. 47, No. 11, November 1992. The entire issue os d
- devoted to the topic, "Reflections on B. F. Skinner and Psychology." The
- 22 articles, an introduction, and a historical note make this a rich source for
- anyone who needs up-to-the-minute evidence that radical behaviorists say
- the things we (would-be PCT authors) attribute to them -- reviewers like
- to tell us our attributions are incorrect. (By the way, one of the denizens
- of CSG-L is co-author of one of the articles, and a nice one it is!
- Dennis J. Delprato & Bryan D. Midgley, Some fundamentals of B. F. Skinner's
- behaviorism," pp. 1507-1520. This is a nice review exactly what they say
- it is -- many of the fundamentals.)
-
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 4, December 1992. An issue
- on "Controversies in neuroscience I: Movement control. Gary Cziko
- mentioned tghis one a few days back, but I just had to see for myself. Not
- one mention of PCT or anything close -- well, there are a few commentaries
- that come a little close, but not very. And the first of eight target
- articles is by Bizzi, Hogan, Mussa-Ivaldi, and Goszter: "Does the nervous
- system use equilibrium-point control to guide single and multiple jointt
- movements?" Bill and Greg -- when you re-submit your manuscript on
- ARM-LITTLE MAN, I am certain this reference, and its long list of
- commentaries in B&BS, will be thrown back at you. Better look at it and
- mention it.
-
- All in all, these two thick collections gave me a renewed appreciation
- of the degree to which the idea of high-gain negative feedback control
- has penetrated the behavioral and life sciences -- not one bit.
- A few days ago, I posted, "May Boss Reality tread lightly on the controlled
- variables of you, and of those you love." I didn't expect to find my own
- CVs stomped flat!
- (Bizzi's coauthor is Giszter, not Goszter.)
- Until later,
- A two-dimensional Tom Bourbon
-