Anticipator Quotes

The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valéry once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations. (Daniel Dennett)
When you talk about being an ‘anticipator,' of having a pretty good idea of when something's going to happen-or how, or who will be there-isn't that a kind of divination?” "No. I think it's more a kind of subconscious knack for dealing with statistics, against a fairly well-known field of actions. View quote
Roger Zelazny