Anticipation – A Spooky Computation

As the subject of anticipation claims its legitimate place in current scientific and technological inquiry, researchers from various disciplines (e.g.. computation, artificial intelligence, biology, logic. art theory) make headway in a territory of unusual aspects of knowledge and epistemology. Under the heading anticipation, we encounter subjects such as preventive caching, robotics, advanced research in biology (defining the living) and medicine (especially genetically transmitted disease), along with fascinating studies in art (music. in particular). These make up a broad variety of fundamental and applied research focused on a controversial concept. Inspired by none other than Einstein – he referred to spooky actions at distance, i.e., what became known as quantum nonlocality – the title of the paper is meant to submit my hypothesis that such processes are related to quantum non-locality. The second goal of this paper is to offer a cognitive framework – based on my early work on mind processes (1988) – within which the variety of anticipatory horizons invoked today finds a grounding that is both scientifically relevant and epistemologically coherent. The third goal of this paper is to identify the broad conceptual categories under which we can identify progress made so far and possible directions to follow. The fourth and final goal is to submit a co-relation view of anticipation and to integrate the inclusive recursion in a logic of relations that handles co-relations.