The Emergence of Systematicity in Minimally Cognitive Agents
The Emergence of Systematicity in Minimally Cognitive Agents
In this chapter, we examine marginal cases of systematicity in the behavior of minimally cognitive agents like plants and insects. Our intention is to provide in the context of such simple agents a basis for understanding systematicity in more sophisticated kinds of linguistically mediated cognition. To do so, we adopt a neo-Gibsonian perspective in order to show how systematicity may emerge, providing an explanation of the emergence of systematic intelligence per se rather than a defense of a particular cognitive architecture.
Keywords: Behavioral systematicity, Minimal cognition, Ecological psychology, Plant neurobiology
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