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[From Bill Powers (990423.0248 MDT)]

Fred Nickols (990422.1832)--

>The comments below turned up in another list where I play.  I seem to
>recall a reference to this by Bill P at some point a while back.  In any
>event, do any bona fide PCTers care to comment on the description below?

What Simon was talking about, as I would see it now, was the basic PCT
concept of achieving constant ends by variable means. But when Simon wrote
that piece there was no way to say this, because the accepted wisdom was
still that the environment, in the final analysis, controlled behavior.
Remember that this was the same Simon who wrote that the organism is just
one huge complex input-output function. Knowing what we know now, it's easy
to read an understanding of control processes into descriptions that
actually came from an entirely different concept of organisms.

Best,

Bill P.