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To: js1138; CottShop; betty boop
Certainly there is nothing remarkable about an intelligent creature anticipating something is likely to happen and taking action. If someone throws a heavy object at one's head, he'll probably duck.

But the lowest levels of the AP model do not have that kind of intelligence, e.g. to anticipate the need for maintenance and repairs.

The article calls it inverse causality - I think of it as temporal non-locality. In other words, the anticipation or awareness or foreknowledge of what has not yet happened is not knowable autonomously at the level which must obtain that insight to advance.


264 posted on 01/27/2009 9:43:30 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl; js1138; CottShop
The article calls it inverse causality - I think of it as temporal non-locality. In other words, the anticipation or awareness or foreknowledge of what has not yet happened is not knowable autonomously at the level which must obtain [for] that insight to advance.

What a wonderful insight, dearest sister in Chirst — and so marvelously well put!

272 posted on 01/27/2009 10:10:57 PM PST by betty boop
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To: Alamo-Girl
The article calls it inverse causality - I think of it as temporal non-locality. In other words, the anticipation or awareness or foreknowledge of what has not yet happened is not knowable autonomously at the level which must obtain that insight to advance.

I believe I've pinged you asking for observed instances of foreknowledge.

280 posted on 01/28/2009 6:37:00 AM PST by js1138
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