Computational ideas developed within the control theory have limited relevance to control processes in living systems
Mark L. Latash a1andAnatol G. Feldman a2 a1 Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
mLL11@psu.edu a2 Department of Physiology, Neurological Science Research Center, University of Montreal and Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, H3S 2J4, Canada
feldman@med.umontreal.ca
Abstract
Exclusively focused on data that are consistent with the proposed ideas, the target article misses an opportunity to review data that are inconsistent with them. Weaknesses of the emulation theory become especially evident when one tries to incorporate physiologically realistic muscle and reflex mechanisms into it. In particular, it fails to resolve the basic posture-movement controversy.
