TYPES OF ANTICIPATORY BEHAVING AGENTS IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Anticipation is broad multidisciplinary topic but there are little thoughts on its relation with the reactive behaviour, the similarities and where the boundary is. Reactive behaviour is still considered as the exact opposite for the anticipatory one. It was shown that reactive and anticipatory behaviour can be combined. We will present own viewpoint. Our multi-level anticipatory behaviour approach is based on the current understanding of anticipation from both the artificial intelligence and the biology point of view. The terms as weak and strong artificial life will be discussed here. Original thought is that we use not one but multiple levels of anticipation in a creature design. We focus on the first 2 levels within the 8-factor anticipation framework here. These first two levels may seem trivial, but growing interest in implicit anticipation and reactive anticipation suggest that this is a worthwhile topic. The simplicity of them is intentional to demonstrate our way of thinking and understanding of the topic. The comparison with other results is possible only when these levels are integrated into the complex architecture that can also act as standalone. Examples of experiments follow.