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  %CRITERIA AUTO REGULATE SYSTEM CHANGE VALUE IDEAL 901005

     Any  automatic  system for auto-regulation  must have
some  built-in  criteria stating when to  take  action  to
maintain some measurable parameter within specified bounds
of  accuracy.   The  system must also have  some  built-in
criteria for how much time to allow between action  taken,
and judgement as to whether the action taken was adequate,
too much, or too little; i.e.,  how patient to be with the
response to actions taken.  If more than one parameter  is
to be regulated,  the system must be able to deal with any
conflict between regulating one parameter,  and regulating
any   other   parameter;   i.e.,   there  must   be   some
specification  as  to  how to  resolve  conflicts  between
multiple secondary ideals in terms of one supreme ideal.

     If  an  auto-regulatory  system is to  survive  in  a
changing environment,  the system must be able to  respond
to  changes  in the environment so as to maintain its  own
integrity, survivability, and functionality.  If the range
of environmental changes which may be encountered is going
to  be large,  the system must have a large number of ways
of  responding  to  environmental changes  to  succeed  in
maintaining   its   own  integrity,    survivability   and
functionality.   Then  it  must have ways to  balance  the
importance of each possible internal change in relation to
the  changes in the environment.  There is no end  to  the
chain of possible levels of evaluation!

     These  considerations apply to humans as well  as  to
machines.   When humans become like machines,  it is  then
that machines appear to be human.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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