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1 online resource (vii, 403 pages) : color illustrations |
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Cognitive systems monographs, 1867-4925 ; volume 29 |
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Cognitive systems monographs ; volume 29.
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| Contents |
1 The (Almost) Impossible Task of Interdisciplinarity; Abstract; 1 What Is at Stake?; 2 Interdisciplinary Perspective; 3 Computers and the Ability to Anticipate; 4 Constraints, Programming, and Knowing Before Knowing; 5 Living in a World of Fast-Expanding Vulnerability; Acknowledgments; References; Part I Theoretical and General Aspects of Anticipation ; 2 Anticipation of Random Future Events; Abstract; 1 Physiological Anticipation of Future Events; 1.1 The Phenomenon; 1.2 Neuro- and Psychophysiological Evidence; 1.3 Behavioral Evidence; 2 Tentative Interpretations |
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3 Practical Applications4 Final Comments; References; 3 The Birth Defect of the Information Processing Approach; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 The Fault of the Information Processing Approach; 3 The Reafference Principle: Control of Perception by Anticipation; 4 The Ideomotor Principle: Control of Behaviour by Anticipation; 5 An Experimental Demonstration of the IMP; 6 The Interplay of the Reafference and the Ideomotor Principle: Structuring the ̀Mental World' by Anticipation; References; 4 An Epistemological Compromise Between Actor and Observer; Abstract; 1 Introduction |
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2 Computational Model of Prediction3 General System Using Reinforcement Learning; 3.1 Desirability; 3.2 Choice and Strategy; 3.3 Confidence and Predictability; 3.4 Example Implementation; 3.5 Selection Strategy; 3.6 Anticipation; 4 Epistemological Limitations; 5 Interaction-Free Measurement; 5.1 Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb-Testing Problem; 5.2 Elitzur-Dolev Choice of Histories; 6 Conclusion; References; Part II Anticipation in Biological and Physiological Systems ; 5 Future Perception in Plants; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Modes and Implications of Future Perception in Plants |
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2.1 Mild Predicts Acute, Minor Correlates with Major2.2 Pure Signals and Cues: Non-functional Proxies for Functional Utilities; 2.3 Trajectory Perception; 2.4 Eavesdrop on Thy Neighbor; 2.5 Trans-Generational Inheritance; 3 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 6 Certain and Uncertain Futures in the Brain; Abstract; 1 Memory of the Future; 2 Hierarchies in the Prefrontal Cortex; 3 Anticipation and Emotion; 4 Certainty and Uncertainty in the Future; 5 General Discussion; References; 7 Neural Systems Underlying the Prediction of Complex Events; Abstract |
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1 Prediction in Cognitive Neuroscience2 ̀Event' in ̀Event Prediction'; 3 Dynamic-Forward Prediction; 4 Prediction of Observed Action; 4.1 Objects, Rooms and Actors as (Predictive) Cues; 4.2 Script Knowledge; 4.3 Using Stochastic Structures in Action Sequences; 5 Concluding Remarks; References; 8 Time and Consciousness; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Consciousness Creates Time: Theoretical Considerations; 3 Consciousness Creates Time: Empirical Evidence; 4 Retro-Causality, Time Travel, and the Grandfather Paradox; 5 Retro-Causality and Supra-Luminal Signal Transfer |
| Summary |
Never before was anticipation more relevant to the life and activity of humankind than it is today. "It is no overstatement to suggest that humanity's future will be shaped by its capacity to anticipate ..." (Research Agenda for the 21st Century, National Science Foundation). The sciences and the humanities can no longer risk explaining away the complexity and interactivity that lie at the foundation of life and living. The perspective of the world that anticipation opens justifies the descriptor "the post-Cartesian Revolution." If anticipation is a valid research domain, what practical relevance can we await? Indeed, anticipation is more than just the latest catch-word in marketing the apps developed by the digital technology industry. Due to spectacular advances in the study of the living, anticipation can claim a legitimate place in current investigations and applications in the sciences and the humanities. Biology, genetics, medicine, as well as politics and cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences, provide rich evidence of anticipatory processes at work. Readers seeking a foundation for anticipation will find in these pages recent outcomes pertinent to plant life, political anticipation, cognitive science, architecture, computation. The authors contributing to this volume frame experimental data in language that can be shared among experts from all fields of endeavor. The major characteristic is the inference from the richness of data to principles and practical consequences |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 7, 2015) |
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Expectation (Philosophy)
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Mathematical modelling.
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Artificial intelligence.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Expectation (Philosophy)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Nadin, Mihai, editor
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| ISBN |
9783319225999 |
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3319225995 |
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