A promising recent approach for understanding complex phenomena is recognition of anticipatory behavior of living organisms and social organizations. The anticipatory, predictive action permits learning, novelty seeking, rich experiential existence. I argue that the established frameworks of anticipation, adaptation or learning imply overly passive roles of anticipatory agents, and that a fictionalist standpoint reflects the core of anticipatory behavior better than representational or future references. Cognizing beings enact not just their models of the world, but own make-believe existential agendas as well. Anticipators embody plausible scripts of living, and effectively assume neo-Kantian or pragmatist perspectives of cognition and action. It is instructive to see that anticipatory behavior is not without mundane or loathsome deficiencies. Appreciation of ferally fictionalist anticipation suggests an equivalence of semiosis and anticipation.

理解复杂现象的一种有前途的新方法是识别生物体和社会组织的预期行为。预期的、预测性的行为允许学习、求新、丰富的体验存在。我认为，既定的预期、适应或学习框架暗示了预期代理的过度被动角色，并且虚构主义的立场比代表性或未来参考更能反映预期行为的核心。认知存在不仅制定他们的世界模型，而且制定自己的虚构存在议程也是。预期者体现了似是而非的生活剧本，并有效地承担了认知和行动的新康德式或实用主义观点。看到预期行为并非没有世俗或令人讨厌的缺陷是有启发性的。对野蛮的虚构主义预期的欣赏表明符号学和预期是等价的。