The anticipatory profile. An attempt to describe anticipation as process

Nadin, Mihai

doi:10.1080/03081079.2011.622093

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“…George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, tells us that '[t]he best books are the books that tell you what you know already'; these books, like algorithms, have already predicted us. But life cannot be reduced to or represented by an algorithm (Nadin, 2011). If this is what the best is, then we are hoping that this book on anticipation will become one of the worst.…”

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“…Kimbell weaves the manifold pragmatics and critiques of her positioning into a text shot through with capacities for affecting and being affected that are crucial components of any relational ontology. While Kimbell's focus is turned elsewhere, with this mention of 'relational ontology' we (Jamie and John) see the relationality of the theoretical biology of Robert Rosen (who, as noted already, is a key figure in anticipation studies), as well as a brief mention of his tutor and mentor, Nicolas Rashevsky (1899-1972) who coined the term 'relational biology' and from whom Rosen took up the antireductionist cause (Nadin, 2010(Nadin, , 2011. It is worth noting here, briefly, that a relational ontology also suffuses the metaphysics and ethics of Baruch Spinoza (1996).…”

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Introduction to a creative philosophy of anticipation

Brassett¹,

O’Reilly²

2021

A Creative Philosophy of Anticipation

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Opening gaps There were many anticipations creating this book. We start with the Second International Conference on Anticipation, held at Senate House in London 2017, where we (Jamie Brassett and John O'Reilly) organized and delivered a curated discussion panel-though this is by no means the earliest encounter germane to this story. Anticipation took the form of an atmosphere in this 1930s Art Deco building. Senate House was initiated by William Beveridge when he was elected to the post of Vice-Chancellor of the University of London in 1926. Beveridge's work anticipated and therefore created a new timeline of the future as the thinker of the welfare state that enabled heterogenous futures. Beveridge also had a different, more homogenous version of the future-like many of the prewar left in Britain who were motivated by the idea of eugenics, the engineering out of undesired genetic qualities (Freedland, 2012; Renwick, 2019). For Beveridge, the anticipatory power of the welfare state gave way to the predictive power of eugenics. The 19-floor building of Senate House was designed by vegetarian Quaker Charles Holden, a specialist in the atmosphere of the subterranean, having designed over 40 underground stations in London. The slightly dystopic atmosphere generated by the severe beauty of the building's Portland Stone materials haunted the future in the present in perfectly anticipatory fashion. George Orwell's Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four was modelled on Senate House. The strategy of organizational threat as a mode of political control by Orwell's Ministry of Truth, anticipates the operational logic behind the strategies of the US and UK governments nearly 20 years after the fictional year of the book-especially with the War on Terror. 'Fear is the anticipatory reality in the present of a threatening future,' writes Brian Massumi in his essay 'The future birth of the affective fact'. He continues: 'It is the felt reality of the nonexistent, loomingly present as the affective fact of the matter' (Massumi, 2010, p. 54). In everyday experience such prophecies can become self-fulfilling, but this disguises the affective, material power of threat as an atmosphere. The affective fact, Massumi argues, opens the way to generate and legitimate many different kinds of actions, actors and their networks to preempt the

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“…Rosen’s (1985) work in anticipatory systems is foundational in acknowledging all biologic life is a system and aptly provides the definition: “an anticipatory system is a system containing a predictive model of itself or its environment which allows it to change state at in instant in accord with the model’s prediction pertaining to a later state.” The brain itself can be viewed as an anticipatory system. Nadin (2012) adds to Rosen’s theories by inferring that an anticipatory system is defined by “not only past states, but possible future states.” (Nadin 2010, 2012) Nadin’s further research adds the dimensional components of mathematics, arts, biological, and computational sciences to enhance anticipatory systems thinking.…”

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“…The brain itself can be viewed as an anticipatory system. Nadin (2012) adds to Rosen's theories by inferring that an anticipatory system is defined by "not only past states, but possible future states." (Nadin 2010(Nadin , 2012 Nadin's further research adds the dimensional components of mathematics, arts, biological, and computational sciences to enhance anticipatory systems thinking.…”

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Deepening Futures with Neuroscience

Rhemann

2018

World Futures Review

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Strides in Neuroscience, coupled with Futures Studies, have the potential to complement one another in exploring how the brain thinks about the future and how we might anticipate disruption. This article explores disruption through anticipatory thinking and the lenses of both Futures and Neuroscience in bringing a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding how we think about futures and how Futures and Neuroscience might join forces to create broader insights and adapt futurist toolsets leading to better foresight models and data collection methods.

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“…Top-down causality is a form of final causality ' (1993, 270). The essential temporality and process nature of anticipation has been also clarified by Nadin (2012).…”

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Overcoming the Newtonian paradigm: The unfinished project of theoretical biology from a Schellingian perspective

Gare

2013

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

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ABSTRACT:Defending Robert Rosen's claim that in every confrontation between physics and biology it is physics that has always had to give ground, it is shown that many of the most important advances in mathematics and physics over the last two centuries have followed from Schelling's demand for a new physics that could make the emergence of life intelligible. Consequently, while reductionism prevails in biology, many biophysicists are resolutely anti-reductionist. This history is used to identify and defend a fragmented but progressive tradition of anti-reductionist biomathematics. It is shown that the mathematico-physico-chemico morphology research program, the biosemiotics movement, and the relational biology of Rosen, although they have developed independently of each other, are built on and advance this anti-reductionist tradition of thought. It is suggested that understanding this history and its relationship to the broader history of post-Newtonian science could provide guidance for and justify both the integration of these strands and radically new work in post-reductionist biomathematics.

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The anticipatory profile. An attempt to describe anticipation as process

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

Introduction to a creative philosophy of anticipation

Introduction to a creative philosophy of anticipation

Deepening Futures with Neuroscience

Overcoming the Newtonian paradigm: The unfinished project of theoretical biology from a Schellingian perspective

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