Daniko, in your article in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, 'Practopoiesis, or how life fosters a mind- you have a number of comments which are similar to Peircean theory. And certainly, I think that your analysis will be of great interest to people in biosemiotics. I'll only comment at the moment on a few things you wrote:
[Prof. Dr. Danko Nikolic http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002251931500106X You wrote: 1) Thus, human-like level of intelligence can be achieved only if the system stores knowledge in a sufficiently generalized form, can extract and adjust this generalized knowledge on its own, and has the capability of applying it to specific situations. This requires a T3-system. Edwina: This generalized form of knowledge is known in Peircean terms as 'Thirdness' and does indeed, apply to specific situations. 2) Hence, technology seems to have a tendency to serve as an alternative to adaptation by natural selection. That is, by increasing our knowledge at the level of ideatheca we become more competent as a species, resulting in less downward pressure on Darwinian selection for the species. Edwina: Right, the more complex biological organisms - such as the human species - have the capacity to adapt, not by the slow method of biological transformation, but by creating technological means. We might be more competent as a species, BUT, this capacity-to-imagine a solution, by inventing a novel technology ...also includes a capacity-to-imagine falsehoods. So, we can believe that witches cause disease and moving us away from this imagined conclusion can be very difficult and can take years. 3) In conclusion, adaptive intelligence requires not only massive storage of knowledge in a form of a rich network architecture but also a sufficient number of adaptive levels to acquire, adjust and manipulate that knowledge. Our brain theories, empirical investigations, and AI algorithms should consider systems with three such adaptive levels (T3-systems) capable of producing anapoiesis and having a large ideatheca. Edwina: Does the massive storage of knowledge and the number of adaptive levels function within the individual - or is it instead the case that such a complex intelligence operates within a collective, within the 'community-of-knowers, so to speak - and no one person is required (or even has the ability) to develop novel adaptations on their own.
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