.... In fact, the anticipatory exploitation of models is possibly the single most important reason for developing models. According to Rosen, “An anticipatory system is a system containing a predictive model of itself and/or its environment, which allows it to change state at an instant in accord...

... assumptions of time leads to consideration of anticipatory systems and of the relationship between purpose and causality. It leads further into conjecture that the present moment is more ontologically fundamental than what we customarily refer to as past, present and future. Findings...