http://cogprints.org/694/
The ``Semantics'' of Evolution: Trajectories and Trade-offs in Design Space and Niche Space
This paper attempts to characterise a unifying overview of the practice of software engineers, AI designers, developers of evolutionary forms of computation, designers of adaptive systems, etc. The topic overlaps with theoretical biology, 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, 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.
Sloman, Aaron
Animal Behavior
Animal Cognition
Behavioral Biology
Evolution
Primatology
Theoretical Biology
Cognitive Psychology
Computational Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Machine Vision
Neural Nets
Robotics
Developmental Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuropsychology
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science
Aaron
Sloman