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Anticipatory Systems Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations

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Full Title

Anticipatory Systems Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations

Author(s)

Robert Rosen

Edition
ISBN

9781483286273, 9780080311586

Publisher

Pergamon

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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).