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Planning may be seen as simulating the future. This will be done by extending experience from the past to future situations. Thus planning has an essentially probabilistic aspect, because the genesis of life is irreversible in time. One can only expect what will occur in the future and the usual strategy is to compare data continuously with expectations in order to adapt ‘likelihoods’ to reality.
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Eppers, J., Leserer, M. (1987). Some Remarks in Forward Programming. In: Carraro, C., Sartore, D. (eds) Developments of Control Theory for Economic Analysis. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3495-5_8
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