People as Living Things

by Philip J. Runkel, Ph.D.

Part I	Part V
Control of perception	The higher orders
1 The springs of action	22 More about the control loop
2 Living things	23 Internal conflict
3 Inside and outside	24 Up at the top
4 The loop	25 Logic and rationality
5 Beware how I write	26 Personality

Part II	Part VI
Research	Dyads and groups
6 Do it yourself	27 Degrees of freedom I
7 Some foundations	28 The social environment
8 Some models of control	29 Helping
9 Some social interaction	30 The method of levels
	31 Psychotherapy
Part III	32 Language and communication
Science	33 Influence
10 Don't fool yourself
11 Falsification and confirmation	Part VII
12 Models and their worlds	The social order
(Bourbon & Powers)	34 Degrees of freedom II
13 Quantitative measurement	35 Coordination
of volition (Powers)	36 Planning
14 Is behavior probabilistic?	37 Schooling
15 Where's the reality?	38 Mental testing
16 Explaining other theories	39 Ford's Responsible Thinking Process
17 Beware how anybody writes	40 Society

Part IV
Hierarchies of purpose	References
18 The neural hierarchy	Name index
19 Memory and imagination	Subject index
20 Reorganization
21 Emotion
	© 2005 Living Control Systems Publishing

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