When I embarked on my study to update my skills for Computer
Neuro-Science I came across a book by J Allan Hobson called the Dreaming
Brain ISBN 0-14-012498-5. This book convinced me that the synaptic
frequencies where analogous to the grading scale constraints used in my
Ingrid PCP software. The idea that a neuron was the angular mathematics
of a Rep Grid made the rest of the book, explaining movement perception,
fit perfectly with what I needed. NB- I was reading like a barrister
looking for evidence as a digital reconstructivist.
Pribram's Brain and Perception as well as Active Vision by Andrew Blake
& Alan Yuille confirmed this. I continue to actively research this
question.
> Second:
> To (finally) become a postgraduate I will have to write a scientific
> work. The idea of my work is to have a look at the usage of
> Repertory-grid investigating personal constructs of subjects working on
> scientific tasks, especially in a laboratory.(That means reseachers as
> subjects). To complete my argumentations for Grids as an adaquate
> 'instrument' in such kind of investigation I will have to discuss the
> usual criteria on scientific work. If anybody could give any hints on
> Grids and Reliability, Validity and something like Objectivity (though
> I'm aware of this being an contradiction per defintionem, better
> intersubjectivity) I would be very grateful. (I've already noticed the
> mailbase-discussions on stability, thanks...)
> Harald Seelig
I notice a trend on the part of PCPers to suspect the value of grids
when used non-psychologically. I gained confidence in Ingrid's
non-personal abilities by doing a grid of airfares between 18 Australian
cities. The result was a map of Australia.
see http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~income/examples.htm
If you need, I can send you my completed reading list.
Jim Legg
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