Talk:The Vapour Engine

I NEED TO DO SOMETHING HERE The Vapour Engine I THINK THIS WILL DO IT

we can add comments and suggestions here

have gone through and done bits and bobs - minor tweaks.

some points (also in PAD)

is "cybernetic avant cybernetics." a term? I can't find it, so I am going to delete the repetition.

Here Butler establishes a definition of purpose which accords with the definition developed in Wiener et al’s Behaviour, Purpose and Teleology (1943) (see chapter one)
chapter one of what?

It is this technical standard that Butler (and later Bateson) will account for the regulative principles of evolutionary adaptation. - this feels incomplete. made a suggestion... but perhaps it weakens the whole

here and detail alongside a man-made foot composed of ingenious mechanical parts: “We not only feel that there is a wider difference between the ability, time, and care which have been lavished on the real foot and upon the model, than there is between the skill and the time taken to produce Westminster Abbey, and that bestowed upon a gingerbread cake stuck with sugar plums so as to represent it, but also that these two objects must have been manufactured on different principles.”[9](my emphasis) there are no emphases?