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Anticipation Across Disciplines

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  • Presents recent interdisciplinary research in Anticipation Science
  • Reports on contributions to the science of anticipation across the disciplines
  • Brings together contributions from world-wide first class academics and scholars
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS, volume 29)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Theoretical and General Aspects of Anticipation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Anticipation of Random Future Events

      • Patrizio Tressoldi
      Pages 11-17
  3. Anticipation in Biological and Physiological Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    2. Future Perception in Plants

      • Ariel Novoplansky
      Pages 57-70
    3. Certain and Uncertain Futures in the Brain

      • Daniel S. Levine
      Pages 71-80
    4. Time and Consciousness

      • Markus A. Maier, Vanessa L. Buechner
      Pages 93-104
  4. Anticipation in Neural Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
    2. The Imminence Mapping Anticipates

      • A. H. Louie
      Pages 163-185
    3. Representation and Anticipation in Motor Action

      • Thomas Schack, Christoph Schütz, André Frank Krause, Christian Seegelke
      Pages 203-215
  5. Anticipation in Engineering and Information Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
    2. Information Concepts in Anticipatory Systems

      • Tippure S. Sundresh
      Pages 219-229

About this book

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 an

ticipation 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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Texas at Dallas, antÉ—Institute for Research in Anticipatory Systems, Richardson, USA

    Mihai Nadin

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