Posted on February 4, 2008 by diamondgeezer
I’ve been reading the Richard Dawkins book The Ancestor’s Tale.
This takes the problem of “how do you talk about stages in evolution without implying that everything was leading up to and pointing at the appearance of humans as the ‘ultimate achievement’?”
He has the ingenious solution of starting with humans and working backwards, discussing each point [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2008 by diamondgeezer
Attended lectures on adating to changed/ missing or replaced senses.
The idea that adaptation to altered senses (e.g. inverted vision) is possible when other senses remain invariant (gravity etc) seems to have implications for the Di Paulo adapting agent experiment – where only a single,unsupported sense was distorted. A good idea for an AS project would be [...]
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