ABSTRACT
The implications are that the capacity and effectiveness of the anticipatory present moment will partly be a function of how all forms of knowing are brought into action. The scene is set to revisit the anticipatory present moment concept as the foundation for a practice in which systems thinking and futures thinking coalesce. Systems thinking in isolation is about a state domain and futures thinking in isolation is about a time domain. These are integrated in the anticipatory present moment (APM). The acknowledgement of the presence of the observer means that his or her present moment implies that its content or ‘thickness’ can be at least partially known in all its multi-dimensional aspects as outlined in the description of the APM. This is not a consideration for first-order science, which makes its mainstay the production of rational causal explanation in the absence of an observer would see the same thing, making the need to account for an observer perspective redundant.
