This is the re-published edition of Anticipatory Systems, written in the late 1970's by my father, Dr. Robert Rosen, while he was working in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at Dalhousie University. Since he passed away in 1998, he is not able to update the ideas here so that they could be in keeping with everything he had ultimately been able to develop by the end of his life. Therefore, the work here must be regarded as a "snapshot" of his ideas at the moment he was writing them, as complete as they could be up to that particular point in time... but still very much a growing, changing, and developing work-in-progress. His ideas evolved over the course of his career. Some were discarded as he learned and grew in his understanding; some ideas were kept relatively intact but were made irrelevant by later discoveries. Some ideas became significantly different in their applications, their relationships, or in their importance within framework of my father's view of science. And, of course, some he felt he got right the first time and would remain unchanged, increased in importance, or perhaps merely refined into a sharper focus. The point to remember is that it was his modus operandi to "follow the problem" where it led him and let the needs of solving any given problem be his teacher. He was a man who valued the way things really ARE over the way things LOOK, and said that it is much more important to find the truth than to become too attached to the beauty of a set of ideas or a method of approach.
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