Anticipatory Systems
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Anticipatory Systems

Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations

  1. 446 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Anticipatory Systems

Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations

About this book

The first detailed study of this most important class of systems which contain internal predictive models of themselves and/or of their environments and whose predictions are utilized for purposes of present control. This book develops the basic concept of a predictive model, and shows how it can be embedded into a system of feedforward control. Includes many examples and stresses analogies between wired-in anticipatory control and processes of learning and adaption, at both individual and social levels. Shows how the basic theory of such systems throws a new light both on analytic problems (understanding what is going on in an organism or a social system) and synthetic ones (developing forecasting methods for making individual or collective decisions).

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical Mathematical and Methodological Foundations
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Preliminaries
  8. Chapter 2. Natural and Formal Systems
  9. Chapter 3. The Modelling Relation
  10. Chapter 4. The Encodings of Time
  11. Chapter 5. Open Systems and the Modelling Relation
  12. Chapter 6. Anticipatory Systems
  13. Chapter 7. Appendix
  14. Index