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Never before was anticipation more relevant to the life and
activity of humankind than it is today. "It is no overstatement to
suggest that humanity's future will be shaped by its capacity to
anticipate...." (Research Agenda for the 21st Century, National
Science Foundation). The sciences and the humanities can no longer
risk explaining away the complexity and interactivity that lie at
the foundation of life and living. The perspective of the world
that anticipation opens justifies the descriptor "the
post-Cartesian Revolution." If anticipation is a valid research
domain, what practical relevance can we await? Indeed, anticipation
is more than just the latest catch-word in marketing the apps
developed by the digital technology industry. Due to spectacular
advances in the study of the living, anticipation can claim a
legitimate place in current investigations and applications in the
sciences and the humanities. Biology, genetics, medicine, as well
as politics and cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences, provide
rich evidence of anticipatory processes at work. Readers seeking a
foundation for an ticipation will find in these pages recent
outcomes pertinent to plant life, political anticipation, cognitive
science, architecture, computation. The authors contributing to
this volume frame experimental data in language that can be shared
among experts from all fields of endeavor. The major characteristic
is the inference from the richness of data to principles and
practical consequences.
Robert Rosen was not only a biologist, he was also a brilliant
mathematician whose extraordinary contributions to theoretical
biology were tremendous. Founding, with this book, the area of
Anticipatory Systems Theory is a remarkable outcome of his work in
theoretical biology. This second edition of his book Anticipatory
Systems, has been carefully revised and edited, and includes an
Introduction by Judith Rosen. It has also been expanded with a set
of Prolegomena by Dr. Mihai Nadin, who offers an historical survey
of this fast growing field since the original work was published.
There is also some exciting new work, in the form of an additional
chapter on the Ontology of Anticipation, by Dr. John Kineman. An
addendum-- with autobiographical reminiscences by Robert Rosen,
himself, and a short story by Judith Rosen about her father-- adds
a personal touch. This work, now available again, serves as the
guiding foundations for the growing field of Anticipatory Systems
and, indeed, any area of science that deals with living organisms
in some way, including the study of Life and Mind. It will also be
of interest to graduate students and researchers in the field of
Systems Science.
In this book, practicing physicians and experts in anticipation
present arguments for a new understanding of medicine. Their
contributions make it clear that medicine is the decisive test for
anticipation. The reader is presented with a provocative
hypothesis: If medicine will align itself with the anticipatory
condition of life, it can prompt the most important revolution in
our time. To this end, all stakeholders-medical practitioners,
patients, scientists, and technology developers-will have to engage
in the conversation. The book makes the case for the transition
from expensive, and only marginally effective, reactive treatment
through "spare parts" (joint replacements, organ transplants) and
reliance on pharmaceuticals (antibiotics, opiates) to
anticipation-informed healthcare. Readers will understand why the
current premise of treating various behavioral conditions
(attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, schizophrenia) through
drugs has to be re-evaluated from the perspective of anticipation.
In the manner practiced today, medicine generates dependence and
long-lasting damage to those it is paid to help. As we better
understand the nature of the living, the proactive view of
healthcare, within which the science and art of healing fuse,
becomes a social and political mandate.
This volume presents the work of leading scientists from Russia,
Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania, Israel and the USA, revealing major
insights long unknown to the scientific community. Without any
doubt their work will provide a springboard for further research in
anticipation. Until recently, Robert Rosen (Anticipatory Systems)
and Mihai Nadin (MIND - Anticipation and Chaos) were deemed
forerunners in this still new knowledge domain. The distinguished
neurobiologist, Steven Rose, pointed to the fact that Soviet
neuropsychological theories have not on the whole been well
received by Western science. These earlier insights as presented in
this volume make an important contribution to the foundation of the
science of anticipation. It is shown that the daring hypotheses and
rich experimental evidence produced by Bernstein, Beritashvili,
Ukhtomsky, Anokhin and Uznadze, among others-extend foundational
work to aspects of neuroscience, physiology, motorics, education.
This book helps transform the awareness of the anticipatory
perspective into actionable methods for practitioners of medicine.
It provides guidance for those who design new means and methods
inspired by epigenetics, in particular to those who advance
sustainable alternatives.
In this book, practicing physicians and experts in anticipation
present arguments for a new understanding of medicine. Their
contributions make it clear that medicine is the decisive test for
anticipation. The reader is presented with a provocative
hypothesis: If medicine will align itself with the anticipatory
condition of life, it can prompt the most important revolution in
our time. To this end, all stakeholders-medical practitioners,
patients, scientists, and technology developers-will have to engage
in the conversation. The book makes the case for the transition
from expensive, and only marginally effective, reactive treatment
through "spare parts" (joint replacements, organ transplants) and
reliance on pharmaceuticals (antibiotics, opiates) to
anticipation-informed healthcare. Readers will understand why the
current premise of treating various behavioral conditions
(attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, schizophrenia) through
drugs has to be re-evaluated from the perspective of anticipation.
In the manner practiced today, medicine generates dependence and
long-lasting damage to those it is paid to help. As we better
understand the nature of the living, the proactive view of
healthcare, within which the science and art of healing fuse,
becomes a social and political mandate.
This volume presents the work of leading scientists from Russia,
Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania, Israel and the USA, revealing major
insights long unknown to the scientific community. Without any
doubt their work will provide a springboard for further research in
anticipation. Until recently, Robert Rosen (Anticipatory Systems)
and Mihai Nadin (MIND - Anticipation and Chaos) were deemed
forerunners in this still new knowledge domain. The distinguished
neurobiologist, Steven Rose, pointed to the fact that Soviet
neuropsychological theories have not on the whole been well
received by Western science. These earlier insights as presented in
this volume make an important contribution to the foundation of the
science of anticipation. It is shown that the daring hypotheses and
rich experimental evidence produced by Bernstein, Beritashvili,
Ukhtomsky, Anokhin and Uznadze, among others-extend foundational
work to aspects of neuroscience, physiology, motorics, education.
Never before was anticipation more relevant to the life and
activity of humankind than it is today. "It is no overstatement to
suggest that humanity's future will be shaped by its capacity to
anticipate...." (Research Agenda for the 21st Century, National
Science Foundation). The sciences and the humanities can no longer
risk explaining away the complexity and interactivity that lie at
the foundation of life and living. The perspective of the world
that anticipation opens justifies the descriptor "the
post-Cartesian Revolution." If anticipation is a valid research
domain, what practical relevance can we await? Indeed, anticipation
is more than just the latest catch-word in marketing the apps
developed by the digital technology industry. Due to spectacular
advances in the study of the living, anticipation can claim a
legitimate place in current investigations and applications in the
sciences and the humanities. Biology, genetics, medicine, as well
as politics and cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences, provide
rich evidence of anticipatory processes at work. Readers seeking a
foundation for an ticipation will find in these pages recent
outcomes pertinent to plant life, political anticipation, cognitive
science, architecture, computation. The authors contributing to
this volume frame experimental data in language that can be shared
among experts from all fields of endeavor. The major characteristic
is the inference from the richness of data to principles and
practical consequences.
Robert Rosen was not only a biologist, he was also a brilliant
mathematician whose extraordinary contributions to theoretical
biology were tremendous. Founding, with this book, the area of
Anticipatory Systems Theory is a remarkable outcome of his work in
theoretical biology. This second edition of his book Anticipatory
Systems, has been carefully revised and edited, and includes an
Introduction by Judith Rosen. It has also been expanded with a set
of Prolegomena by Dr. Mihai Nadin, who offers an historical survey
of this fast growing field since the original work was published.
There is also some exciting new work, in the form of an additional
chapter on the Ontology of Anticipation, by Dr. John Kineman. An
addendum-- with autobiographical reminiscences by Robert Rosen,
himself, and a short story by Judith Rosen about her father-- adds
a personal touch. This work, now available again, serves as the
guiding foundations for the growing field of Anticipatory Systems
and, indeed, any area of science that deals with living organisms
in some way, including the study of Life and Mind. It will also be
of interest to graduate students and researchers in the field of
Systems Science.
In the most dynamic and prosperous country on Earth-the
USA-stupidity overshadows the intellectual and technical
accomplishments that other nations envy. If Americans continue to
delude themselves about their country, the USA will end up like the
USSR: imploding from within. This work analyzes the systemic
aspects of America's current condition: across-the-board-dumbing
down through media and in education; growing dependence on and
demand for entitlements; corruption in the private and political
domains; chronic cronyism; the opportunistic engineering of
reality. Consequently, individual and collective stupidity not only
leads to crises, it renders the USA impotent in dealing with the
challenges of the fast dynamics characteristic of our time of
post-industrial capitalism oriented towards consumption. The causes
for this state of stupidity are examined: the people's willful
ignorance of the nation's true history and development; an economic
system that does not foster a sense of citizenry; cultivated
mediocrity in education and entertainment; corruption of justice;
rampant consumerism; a state of prosperity that lulls the people
into complacency. Taking the rewards of change for granted,
Americans no longer understand what change entails. Gazing into the
rear-view mirror of history in search of answers, they forget that
the USA was founded in a world more similar to the 1st century than
the 21st. Americans will have to start fighting their own stupidity
instead of further exhausting the country's (and the world's)
resources in wars and entitlement measures. America has to "reset"
herself, within an authentic democratic process, on a foundation
appropriate to the integrated world of the global information age.
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