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Chapter 7
Control and Cognition
The main thrust of CSE is how control can be improved. This chapter
discusses the essential issues in control, such as closed- and open-
loop control, and how automation and technological support fit into
that. CSE applies a basic cyclical model, which can be extended to
account for multiple simultaneous layers of control. This is necessary
to give a realistic description of how a joint cognitive system
functions.
INTRODUCTION
The concept of control is essential to CSE since it is part of the definition of
what a cognitive system is (cf. Chapter 1). Control is one of those everyday
concepts that are meaningful to all and we have so far used the term control
without ...