We argue that Anticipative Capability is the driver of evolutionary advancement, and that it and the evolutions of survivability, consciousness, intelligence, wisdom and evolution itself are broadly equivalent. Key to establishing this equivalence is the adoption of a viewpoint which rejects both 19th century anthropomorphism and late 20th century anti-anthropomorphism in favor of an anti-anti-anthropomorphic stance which presupposes the continuity of evolvability and Anticipative Capability between blind inanimate dependence on Newtons Laws and human technological control. We suggest that the random nature of purely Darwinian selection has been progressively modified towards a more directed form through a number of mechanisms which first simulate Anticipative Capability, e.g. in amoebas and the Venus flytrap, then later implement it, e.g. in insects and animals. We conclude that Anticipative Capability in the absence of self-observation is unlikely; that self-observation in the absence of scalar development is impossible; that emergence of scale corresponds to the emergence of a theory of self in infants; and that the attainment of wisdom in humans is associated with the development of cervical hyperscalarity.
Cottam, R, Ranson, W & Vounckx, R 2006, Anticipative Anti-Anti-Anthropomophism. in DM Dubois (ed.), International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems. vol. 17, Physical Systems, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Mathematical Modelling, Dynamical Systems and Control, CHAOS. Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems, pp. 286-291, Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden, 21/09/09.
Cottam, R., Ranson, W., & Vounckx, R. (2006). Anticipative Anti-Anti-Anthropomophism. In D. M. Dubois (Ed.), International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems (Vol. 17, pp. 286-291). (Physical Systems, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Mathematical Modelling, Dynamical Systems and Control). CHAOS. Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems.
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