[Fis] Anticipatory Systems

[Stanley N Salthe]

On the topic of information as narration:

Information as Narrative (would involve serial ‘statements’)

Formal cause (of narrative) ...  the presence of available channels (in
nature and/or culture) for informative energy flows

Material cause ...  available energy gradients for required actions
generating the narrative

Efficient cause(s) ...  serial actions having sequential cumulative effects
on the result of information flow in such a channel

Final cause ...  anticipated subsequents as effects of the narrative

     (Anticipation requires system survival over a period of time, during
which impingements were survived, sometimes by way of internal modification
-- Rosen, 1985, Anticipatory Systems)

STAN
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