Perceiving direction and working with the future for prediction and planning: a mirror to memory

This section explores the hypothesis that animals lower than us in the evolutionary chain are capable of perceiving direction for the prey. A second hypothesis is that animals routinely utilize prediction and planning, i.e. work with the future.

• This hypothesis arose out of our account for perceiving direction and for positioning, where the actor has to know where he is, and what behaviour is reasonable in that context. Knowing one's position is important in figuring out how to get to a specific other place.
• I shall explore this concept with a simple demo / example
• We shall explore how a predator might chase a prey with or without predicting the future.
• We shall lay out this scenario in simple diagrams, showing movement and the path
• As for positioning, we are assuming some input from perception, without going into details

At the moment we are just modelling the information content and some of the processing required for action and perception.