
Anticipatory Systems
Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations
- 446 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Front Cover
- Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical Mathematical and Methodological Foundations
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Preliminaries
- Chapter 2. Natural and Formal Systems
- Chapter 3. The Modelling Relation
- Chapter 4. The Encodings of Time
- Chapter 5. Open Systems and the Modelling Relation
- Chapter 6. Anticipatory Systems
- Chapter 7. Appendix
- Index