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[from Mary Powers 990504.10:30am]

Bruce A sez: I think that after reading Simon's quote, a reasonable person
on encountering PCT would say "this is just the sort of thing Simon was
talking about - a relatively simple, goal-directed system that is capable
of exhibiting complex behavior when external constraints and disturbances
require it.  This might be worth looking into!"

Either not many reasonable people are acquainted with Simon and PCT, or
there aren't really very many reasonable people around ;-)

We won't get into the difference between talking about such a system and
coming up with one that works...except to say that that it seems that one
of the problems with PCT is that it isn't at all the kind of system that
people seem to have expected to do the job.

Mary P.