Yes, I went through all of them several years ago. Like evolutionary psychology, the approach seems to be mostly correct descriptively, even obvious, but not easy to apply to cause actual changes. (Of course utility function-based approaches are much worse.)
I’d love to see this as a top-level post. Here’s additional material for you: online demos of perceptual control theory, Braitenberg vehicles.
I know the PCT site :-) It was Bill Powers’ first book that introduced me to PCT. Have you tried the demos on that site yourself?
Yes, I went through all of them several years ago. Like evolutionary psychology, the approach seems to be mostly correct descriptively, even obvious, but not easy to apply to cause actual changes. (Of course utility function-based approaches are much worse.)