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Control by Individuals and Societies
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 […]
The difference between causes and mechanisms of behavior
William T. Powers (2011) In PCT, we say that organisms learn control, not behavior. But the meaning of that isn’t self-evident — isn’t controlling also behaving? The organization of a control system, in most cases, […]