Powers, W. T. (1973). Behavior: The Control of Perception. Chicago: Aldine.
Not read: no lawful copy was reached (status_note). The summary is drawn from the book jacket and from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
The full statement of LIT-1180’s theory, for CLAIM-341’s rivals. Registered so that a reading of perceptual control theory has its source. The book is the expected place to read PCT’s “imagination connection” at length (its jacket names “the nature and significance of memory”; the connection is in Powers’s 1960 paper and 1988 outline): a reference signal routed back as the system’s own perception without passing through the environment, the one kind of PCT loop that does not bottom out in action. The Science article (NOTE-963) does not mention it, so whether PCT shares CLAIM-341’s internal loop, or treats it only as imagination in which every goal is met at once, waits on this book. It is also where reorganization, which the article gives one paragraph, is set out, which bears on CLAIM-342 and QUESTION-121.