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Title: Computing Anticipatory Systems: Casys 2000 Fourth International Conference Liege, Belgium 7-12 August 2000 (Aip Conference Proceedings, Volume 573) by International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems 2000 Liege, Daniel M. Dubois, D. M. Dubois ISBN: 0-7354-0012-1 Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $190.00

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Summary: A new kind of science...
Comment: I have read many of papers contained in the three CASYS conference proceedings and have been quite impressed with the direction anticipatory systems research is heading. Anticipatory systems research is derived from Robert Rosen's seminal works "Anticipatory Systems", "Life Itself" and "Essays on Life Itself"; these were basically ignored (much like Rashevsky's work prior to Rosen) but slowly its value is being realized.

Anticipatory systems acknowledge that real processes, particularly life, do not obey causal laws required by our present 'religion' of reductionism. This can be seen in all aspects of science whether one looks at attempts at cybernetics, algorithmic information theory, physics or biology (to name a few). We have consistently run up against the same roadblocks to progress since our present way of thinking excludes the possibility of ever answering some very basic questions.

There is a lot of interest here from Dubois' works in hyperinclusion (although I do not agree with his interpretation of Rosen) to Ekdahl's excellent research on the link between induction and anticipatory systems. Nadin's work is quite good for someone just beginning to get interested in this area. Many aspects of science that are complete mysteries now begin to make much more sense whether it is the Feynman-Wheeler theories of QED, understanding Shnoll's results or learning theories in general when one sees that the problem is our clinging to linear causality.

It is quite interesting to contrast this to Wolfram's pinnacle of ironic science, "A New Kind of Science" - he has no 'new' science, just more of the old stuff. Unfortunately his money has helped him generate lots of hype about fluff when there is much more exciting and genuinely new work being done as it has in the past: quietly and thoughtfully.