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Hi Jerry,
One of the applications for studying natural anticipatory systems
is to develop the ability to create anticipatory controls for our own
technological needs. He used a high-tech camera as an example of a machine with
anticipation built in. He recommended that our modes of government and city
planning, social system analysis, etc, all be examined for ways to build in a
"feed-forward" control system rather than purely feed-back. It's important to
note that while all living systems are anticipatory they also have the
capability for purely reactive behavior as well. That's something all systems
possess. But anticipatory controls are superior under most circumstances because
they prevent the system from entering an "error state". An ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure!
I would dispute that these encoded models are all in the genes,
Jerry. There's so much more that's going on than just genetics.
Judith
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Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:54
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Subject: [ROSEN] Anticipatory
Systems
--- Judith Rosen <***>
wrote:
How the information in these internal predictive
models is
encoded, how it is integrated with "real"
behavior of self/environment, how
it acts on system
behavior... these are all wide open areas which are
just screaming for one of you guys to pursue.
Judith,
A
robot is also qaulified as being anticipatory. It is
quit common practice
to have machine learning, pattern
recognition to learn environment and
anticipate
consequances of future actions so to adjust current
action. A
robot can learn environment and get around
obstacles along the way.
These type of ASs are
algorithmic such as computers and they are closed
in
the sense that the change of environment is
predetermined. The
description of self and
environment is syntactic. Its mechanism is
deduction.
Life as being anticipatory is model-based intead
of
algorithms based. A insect changes its behavior to
adapt to
evironmental change not thro genotype but
thro mutation of the genes.
New genes are created in
next generation that are hypothesis not in
older
generations. New behaviors are generated by
interpretate the
new genes. This process is inductive
and semantic. New
knowledge is created by enlarging
the understanding of environment and self
thro these
new genes or
hypothesis.
Jerry
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