Every Good Regulator of a System Must Be a Model of That System (1970) [pdf](pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
Every Good Regulator of a System Must Be a Model of That System (1970) [pdf](pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
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That seems false. PID is used all over, no models. Very simple, very effective.
I guess it's somewhat more true in programming, because if you have only ten lines, can you even call it modeling?
That said, I like to say that the best kind of code teaches you something new abou the problem it's solving. Some invariant, widely usable simplification, etc. Still not the same as modeling the system as such, though.
Ten? Do you even Perl?
Either the authors made rudimentary error or they specified the context. If you read forward, they define the problem and discuss error and cause controlled regulation.
If one can't make the connection between Turing completeness/automata theory and Neuro-cognititive function...think more.
Likewise, observing that some microscopic piece of a system has operations that can be mapped on to a Turing machine does not mean that the output of the Turing machine controls the variables we care about.
Additionally, we prove constraints about the outputs of particular software (executed on Turing machines) all the time. Noting that some piece of a system is isomorphic to a Turing machine does not actually mean it will be fed arbitrary instructions.