In this final chapter, Turvey lays out the basics of the ecological approach to coordinating action with respect to the future. This is actually a key part of behaviour - we reach for things we know are graspable before grasping them, we move to intercept or avoid things before they are anywhere near us, and so on. The question is how do we do this.
The ecological approach cannot, of course, use prediction to solve this problem. Prediction entails representation, making educated guesses about what is coming up based on loans of intelligence we cannot ever pay off. The whole point of this book has been to lay out the argument that a) this approach is doomed to fail but that b) the ecological approach, grounded in laws, is different enough in kind to be a viable option.
Coordinating with things not in the immediate present is therefore going to rely on lawful informational coupling to dynamical events, with several interesting consequences.
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