?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+%60%60Semantics''+of+Evolution%3A+Trajectories+and+Trade-offs+in+Design+Space+and+Niche+Space&rft.creator=Sloman%2C+Aaron&rft.subject=Animal+Behavior&rft.subject=Animal+Cognition&rft.subject=Behavioral+Biology&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.subject=Primatology&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.subject=Machine+Vision&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Robotics&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=This+paper+attempts+to+characterise+a+unifying+overview+of+the+practice+of+software+engineers%2C+AI+designers%2C+developers+of+evolutionary+forms+of+computation%2C+designers+of+adaptive+systems%2C+etc.+The+topic+overlaps+with+theoretical+biology%2C+developmental+psychology+and+perhaps+some+aspects+of+social+theory.+Just+as+much+of+theoretical+computer+science+follows+the+lead+of+engineering+intuitions+and+tries+to+formalise+them%2C+there+are+also+some+important+emerging+high+level+cross+disciplinary+ideas+about+natural+information+processing+architectures+and+evolutionary+mechanisms+and+that+can+perhaps+be+unified+and+formalised+in+the+future.+There+is+some+speculation+about+the+evolution+of+human+cognitive+architectures+and+consciousness.&rft.publisher=Springer-Verlach&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F694%2F2%2FSloman_iberamia.ps&rft.identifier=++Sloman%2C+Aaron++(1998)+The+%60%60Semantics''+of+Evolution%3A+Trajectories+and+Trade-offs+in+Design+Space+and+Niche+Space.++%5BConference+Paper%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F694%2F