Anticipatory View of Life Self-Design: Agential Anticipation in Central Nervous System

The aim of this study is an attempt to give new constructivist interpretation of well-known "dominant principle" of the outstanding Russian physiologist A. A. Ukhtomsky, which in a narrow sense, is a conceptual model of mechanism of motivated behavioral response of man or higher animals. Ukhtomsky's "Dominanta" is treated as developing situational material agency, expanding on the whole organism. The hypothesis is proposed here, that it is bootstrapping via cyclic processes of inward self-design and outward environmental design [13). This design is based on strong anticipation. The process of Dominanta bootstrapping thus re-establish equilibrium inside the body system organization and, via sensor-motor coupling, equilibrium in the body-environment system in accordance with phenomenology of constructivism.