"The physicist Erwin Schrödinger concluded that organisms are subject to “a new physics,” which he did not produce, but rather viewed as necessary. This new physics might well be the domain of anticipation. Indeed, from within physics itself—that is, quantum mechanics—a possible understanding of some aspects of anticipation can be derived." - antE Institute website (my emphasis)
Successful, willful five-dimensional navigation is predicated on the ability to accurately anticipate the possible outcome states for any future observation. Only once the possible outcome states have been anticipated, can the desired outcome be selectively reinforced against other possibilities. This brings up a series of questions...
What are the mechanisms that govern our ability to anticipate a future event? Is anticipation guided largely (or entirely) by memory, in which case our ability to anticipate would be an entirely linear function of past experience? Or is there room for time-reversed information from the future to have an effect on the accuracy of anticipation, as suggest by Radin/Lobach in their recent study?
Is it possible that we may even be dependent on a time-reversed flow of information from the future for our successful survival? (Okay, back away from the wild speculation.)
If we cannot escape the need for time-reversed information flow, as per physics, and we can agree that there is a dependency of some sort on previous experience in determing what we can anticipate, then where/how do these two components of anticipation interface? How much influence does time-reversed information have on our ability to anticipate (or, on normal cognition in general)? How is that influence manifest within the otherwise-linear dynamics created by the architectures of memory?
Yep, I still have some reading to do...
