Re: anticipation

[Howard Pattee <***>]

John,

Would you say that anticipatory behavior is the same as predictive-model controlled 
behavior?

If so, would a purely syntactic model still allow anticipatory behavior?

Of course a purely syntactic (isolated) model would not be as versatile as an continuous 
input model.

Howard
>
> From: John Kineman <***>
> Date: 2004/03/30 Tue PM 05:58:37 EST
> To: ***
> Subject: Re: anticipation
>
> Yes, the issue is how to argue the source of current anticipatory
> "programs" in plants. I am much more comfortable talking about animals,
> because not only do they have the hardcoded anticipatory behaviors
> (female changes related with childbirth being perhaps an obvious
> example) but they have also preserved the functionally abstract
> abilities in the form of mental ability. My argument is generally that
> its obvioius in the case of mental activity, its strongly indicated and
> a major challenge in physics, hence it is most likely present in
> systems  between these extremes, and it is thus most parsimonious to
> assume some level of functional determination and then devise
> experiements to test for it. Since it  would sharpen evolution and
> explain how Darwin's gradualism can survive temporarily non-adaptive
> intermediate stages (as Baldwin argued), it resolves a problem
> (perceived by some) in the current theory. But most deny there is a
> problem and we don't have good evidence collected to test that in most
> domains.
>
> JJK
>