Human beings have the potential to act or behave,
anticipating the desired outcome with high certainty (Guckelsberger
& Polani, 2014). Realization
of these desired outcomes reinforces the individual to anticipate more and feel
that the environment is under control. During
the emergence of a new event, the individual uses knowledge of the previous
experience with the similar events and anticipates how it unfolds. While
experiencing the events, individuals will trace some of the possibilities and
will store it in certain specific parts of the brain. New anticipations shall be generated based on
these "traces of possibilities', or what I may call pratixas1. The
more the pratixas, the divergent
shall be our anticipations. Rich
experiences enrich pratixas, opening
the sight to the maximum possibilities associated with the events. Individuals with enriched pratixas will have the potential to
anticipate more accurately.
Pratixas are
formed when we are exposed to an event or situation. We are aware, but not conscious, of its
existence. There is no need for any effort to generate pratixas. Rather, it is
effortful and impossible to inhibit its formation. Pratixas
are ready references for us to anticipate anything we are exposed to. They
are direct reference points for most of the cognitive outputs [the counterparts
of anticipations] such as decision making, planning, imagining, criticizing,
predicting, and speculating and so on. The behaviour we show, and the actions we
do, have strong relationships with pratixas.
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1Pratixa (Plural pratixas) is a newly coined word, from
the Malayalam (Indian dialect) Pratheeksha, which means hope. However, Pratixa
is not a synonym of Pratheeksha. Here, pratixa means the ‘trace of possibilities’
imbibed or assumed by an individual from the ‘spectrum of possibilities’
associated with a given event.
Reference:
Guckelsberger, C., & Polani, D. (2014). Effects of anticipation in individually motivated behaviour on survival and control in a multi-agent scenario with resource constraints. Entropy, 16, 3357-3378.
Reference:
Guckelsberger, C., & Polani, D. (2014). Effects of anticipation in individually motivated behaviour on survival and control in a multi-agent scenario with resource constraints. Entropy, 16, 3357-3378.
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