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Lamarck, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and belief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2010

Yorick Wilks
Yorick Wilks
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Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3JS, United Kingdom. yorick@dcs.shef.ac.ukhttp://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick
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Abstract

Nothing in McKay & Dennett's (M&D's) target article deals with the issue of how the adaptivity, or some other aspect, of beliefs might become a biological adaptation; which is to say, how the functions discussed might be coded in such a way in the brain that their development was also coded in gametes or sex transmission cells.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 6 , December 2009 , pp. 538 - 539
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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