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Anticipation and Representation

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Anticipation or prediction is generally assumed to be based on some sort of representation. Such representations will be involved, for example, in a model – causal, statistical, dynamic (process), and other kinds of model – of the system or phenomena to be anticipated. This form of anticipation certainly exists, and is quite important.I will argue, however, that there is a more basic form of anticipation that does not require representation, but is, in fact, constitutive of representation. The intuition underlying this point is that anticipation can be true or false, thus, have truth value, and thus constitute representation in its own right. (The basic criterion here for being representational is “bearing truth value” – that is, being true or false.) But how such anticipation can occur without being based on representation itself will be my focus.

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Bickhard, M.H. (2018). Anticipation and Representation. In: Poli, R. (eds) Handbook of Anticipation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31737-3_11-1

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