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--- 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.' altloc: - ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/groups/cog_affect/Sloman_iberamia.ps chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: October conference: IBERAMIA-98 confloc: Lisbon contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Sloman given: Aaron honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1998 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-06-22 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/06/94 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 694 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_postscript.png;/694/2/Sloman_iberamia.ps full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: inpress issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:12 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: Springer-Verlach refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 10 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:32:58 subjects: - bio-ani-behav - bio-ani-cog - bio-behav - bio-evo - bio-primat - bio-theory - cog-psy - comp-neuro-sci - comp-sci-art-intel - comp-sci-mach-learn - comp-sci-mach-vis - comp-sci-neural-nets - comp-sci-robot - dev-psy - evol-psy - neuro-psy - phil-epist - phil-metaphys - phil-mind - phil-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: "The ``Semantics'' of Evolution: Trajectories and Trade-offs in Design Space and Niche Space" type: confpaper userid: 142 volume: ~