creators_name: Sloman, Aaron type: confpaper datestamp: 1998-06-22 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:12 metadata_visibility: show title: The ``Semantics'' of Evolution: Trajectories and Trade-offs in Design Space and Niche Space ispublished: inpress subjects: bio-ani-behav subjects: bio-ani-cog subjects: bio-behav subjects: bio-evo subjects: bio-primat subjects: bio-theory subjects: cog-psy subjects: comp-neuro-sci subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn subjects: comp-sci-mach-vis subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets subjects: comp-sci-robot subjects: dev-psy subjects: evol-psy subjects: neuro-psy subjects: phil-epist subjects: phil-metaphys subjects: phil-mind subjects: phil-sci full_text_status: public abstract: 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. date: 1998 date_type: published publisher: Springer-Verlach refereed: FALSE citation: Sloman, Aaron (1998) The ``Semantics'' of Evolution: Trajectories and Trade-offs in Design Space and Niche Space. [Conference Paper] (In Press) document_url: http://cogprints.org/694/2/Sloman_iberamia.ps