  The ability to rapidly focus attention and react to salient environmental
features enables animals to move agiley through their habitats. To replicate
this kind of high-performance control of movement in synthetic systems, we
propose a new approach to feedback control that bases control actions on
randomly perceived features. Connections will be made with recent work
incorporating communication protocols into networked control systems. The
concepts of {\em random channel controllability} and {\em random channel
observability} for LTI control systems are introduced and studied.
