The "complex, adaptive system 
" (CAS) substrate is well documented. The notion that we are anticipatory is documented by different researchers, those who study the many ways in which living creatures either have innate structures, such as the single-celled creature which can thrust itself forward and navigate in the direction of signals emitted by sources of food, all the way up to large-brained mammals such as humans, which begin life with sufficient innate abilities to begin to bootstrap the larger brain which learns from experience over time.
The point of having a model - we say "worldview", "opinion" - is to allow us to derive explanations of what we observe, and to predict, or anticipate future events.
Learning to read is a simple example of anticipatory behavior: eventually learning to expect the next word, or even paragraph.
To me, the most powerful aspect of anticipatory behavior lies in how we handle "expectation failures". In reading, we sometimes go back and re-read to see what we might have missed. An advanced behavior is to research why we failed to expect what we just read; perhaps a new word for us, perhaps just a typo.
A science known as Chaos Theory seems highly related to CAS. Chaos theory gives us an additional ontology and epistemology in relation to conversations.