Todd, P.M., and Lopez, A. (1998). Pulling the trigger on the living kind module. Commentary on S. Atran, Folk biology and the anthropology of science: Cognitive universals and cultural particulars. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21(4):592.
Abstract
Atran speculates that a triggering algorithm for a living kind module could involve inputs from other modules that detect animacy and intentionality. Here we further speculate how algorithms for detecting specific intentions could be used to trigger between- or within-species categorization. We further indicate why such categorization may be adaptively important in Eldredge's energy and information realms.
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