title: Simulating autonomous anticipation: the importance of Dubois' conjecture.
abstract: Anticipation allows a system to adapt to conditions that have not yet come to be, either externally to the system or internally. Autonomous systems actively control their own conditions so as to increase their functionality (they self-regulate). Living systems self-regulate in order to increase their own viability. These increasingly stronger conditions, anticipation, autonomy and viability, can give an insight into progressively stronger classes of models of autonomy. I will argue that stronger forms are the relevant ones for Artificial Life. This has consequences for the design of and accurate simulation of living systems.
authors.affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Philosophy and Ethics, Durban 4041, South Africa. collierj@ukzn.za
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Collier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D019369:Life; D008954:Models, Biological; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014836:Volition / Q000502:physiology*