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The International Association of Perceptual Control Theory supports the dissemination of William T. Powers’ seminal theory. Now at https://teapaw.org/t.co/wCrYGBaCO0

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Paul Cisek endorses William Powers’ Perceptual Control Theory. Powers critiques Skinner’s behaviouralist system: it’s not just 1 way (reinforcements control behaviour), it’s a circuit/loop where behaviour controls reinforcements which influence behaviour. youtu.be/yeZjwdx30ys?feature…
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Replying to @Gautham529
Interesting. I like the general idea of "perceptual control theory", which says we control our bodies to meet our perceptual goals; e.g., the reaching task has a goal of seeing our hand reach the cup and feeling it in our hand. The problem is how to specify that in the context of RL or some other optimization formulation, which is essentially what your work addresses.
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blew my mind when I opened The Wonder Weeks and was like "holy shit these are precisely the Perceptual Control Theory stages" (similar to predictive processing) I've loved PCT since 2017—it was fun to see it show up in the wild (well, a dev psych book 😅) teapaw.org/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1…
one of my fav excerpts from one of my fav books (Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control, by William T. Powers, about PCT (Perceptual Control Theory) chapter on Learning starts with beautiful lil case study of a baby crying
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@IAPCT retweeted
Available once more! Reasonably priced, the core text of perceptual control theory: amazon.com/Behavior-Control-…
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Perceptual Control Theory A Model for Understanding the Mechanisms and Phenomena of Control – Powers et al (2011) buff.ly/47zxJYs
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🚨 New preprint 🚨 Pleased to share a new collaborative paper, led by @PsychScientists, on predictive control versus prospective control in the cognitive (neuro) sciences: “Predictive vs. prospective control: Clarifying the terms of the debate” osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ce… 1/3
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In particular, we discuss three notions of predictive control (from perception-action, predictive processing, and the free energy principle) and two notions of prospective control (from perceptual control theory and ecological psychology). Hope you find it helpful! 3/3
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Alternative to the above inverse kinematics computational paradigm, perceptual control theory is used to solve the problem of movement in robotics: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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The 34th #IAPCT2024 Conference, hosted by @CurtinUni, wraps up today after three days of global collaboration on topics like pilot training, infant development, consciousness and deradicalisation. Thanks to all who contributed! Learn more. 👉 iapct.org
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Great conversations about Method of Levels (MOL) and Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) at the 34th IAPCT Pre-Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina! MOL practice with clinicians was a hit. Can’t wait for the main Conference in November! iapct.org/events/2024-confer… @iapct
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Replying to @thedankoe
@thedankoe have you explored Perceptual Control Theory (PCT)? @iapct
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A Thought provoking 🤔 retake on mental health symptoms and diagnosis opening a whole new paradigm on treatment possibilities to address this current mental health crisis
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Thought-provoking article! And the podcast makes it super accessible and easy to understand. Listen to this podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3xD…
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Full schedule released.Register to join us online or in person:
Free registration open now for online & in-person: iapct.org/events/2024-confer… Topics include: emotion, consciousness, mental health care, counselling, education, child development, artificial intelligence, robotics, neuroscience…
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looking forward to this
Free registration open now for online & in-person: iapct.org/events/2024-confer… Topics include: emotion, consciousness, mental health care, counselling, education, child development, artificial intelligence, robotics, neuroscience…
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@iapct this seems related with Perceptual Control Theory
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"What's the Magic Word? A Control Theory of LLM Prompting" arxiv.org/abs/2310.04444
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We just dropped our main show on "What's the Magic Word? A Control Theory of LLM Prompting". This is some of the bonus footage we didn't release on YT. With @ABhargava2000 @witkowski_cam @Sz_Looi
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How do you model human behavior? Behavior is what the interaction between two systems "looks like" from the viewpoint of a third entity (an observer). You can model a system and can even model its environment, but you can only observe the behavior resulting from their interaction
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