Avery Johnson
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Biography
During the 1950s and 1960s, Avery Johnson was at MIT, conducting research at the MIT Neurophysiology Laboratory. [1]
Some Pieces of the Paradigm of Courteous Environments
1. The environment and its users interact in a set of physical parameters shared in common… 2. The control of each parameter must be looped back upon itself — simply at least, but with more complex interconnections as the facilities for self-organizing control are augmented… 3. Each loop behavioiur should possess a small amount of random variation… 4. At a more advanced stage, consideration must be given to decision processes and to learning processes… 5. N.B. MEASUREMENTS ARE NOT TO BE MADE UPON THE OCCUPANTS OF AN ENVIRONMENT…. BIG BROTHER IS NOT WATCHING YOU. HE IS ENJOYING HIMSELF. SO JOIN THE FUN. … 6. Beware at all times of limiting the degrees of freedom of any part of a living environment. Choose with care but with courage. Leave every parameter as free and self-organizing as possible.[2]
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Kudos
Thanks to Matt Gorbet for the majority of this information.
References
- ↑ Avery Johnson and Warren Mortimer Brodey, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0042. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_290580 Accessed 8 Dec 2023.
- ↑ Johnson, Avery R. The Three Little Pigs Revisited. Pg 179.
