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Whose Anticipations?

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Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems

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The central question in this paper is: Who (or what) constructs anticipations? I challenge the (tacit) assumption of Rosen’s standard definition of anticipatory systems according to which the cognitive system actively constructs a predictive model based on which it carries out anticipations. My arguments show that so-called implicit anticipatory systems are at the root of any other form of anticipatory systems as the nature of the ”decision maker” in the latter cannot be a conscious one.

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  1. VUB, CLEA, Krijgskundestraat 33, B-1160, Brussels, Belgium

    Alexander Riegler

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070, Würzburg, Germany

    Martin V. Butz

  2. Animat Lab, University Paris VI, 104 Av du Président Kennedy, 75016, Paris, France

    Olivier Sigaud

  3. ADAge, LIPN, Univ. de Paris-Nord, 93 430, Villetaneuse, France

    Pierre Gérard

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Riegler, A. (2003). Whose Anticipations?. In: Butz, M.V., Sigaud, O., Gérard, P. (eds) Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2684. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45002-3_2

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