The Logic of Control: A Tractatus on Perceptual Control and Awareness

This monograph presents a formal, axiomatic synthesis of William T. Powers’ Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) and the logical structure of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The text outlines a hierarchy of perceptual control loops as the fundamental unit of biological and cognitive organization. It moves recursively from the mechanics of the feedback loop to the emergence of complex phenomena, including attractor dynamics in perceptual manifolds, the resolution of hierarchical conflict, and the stabilization of systemic identity.