About M. Martin Taylor

When Martin Taylor came to participate in the PCT research community in the early 1990s, he had already developed and experimentally tested a theoretical framework for modeling communication and collective control, called Layered Protocol Theory (LPT). He soon realized that LPT is a subset or specialization within PCT.
This generous, open-minded acceptance is a mark of excellence in science. His training and experience prepared him as few others have been to understand Perceptual Control Theory and to grapple with its transformative ramifications in the life sciences. He and Bill Powers had in common their training and experience in the uncompromising mathematics of engineering physics. Taylor brought to this additional mathematical tools and decades of experience investigating problems of collective control essential to the further development of PCT.