The cognitive ratchet – the ratchet effect as a fundamental principle in evolution and cognition. (English) Zbl 1031.93008
The paper discusses the principles which govern evolution, driving the mechanisms of complexification, and outlines its implications for cognition. It concludes that there exists a deeper relationship between procedural anticipation and the internal structural level of biological systems which originates complexification. The key would be anticipatory mechanisms which act on the environment to ascribe it suitable configurations. As a result, temporal irreversibility seems to be pervasive anywhere in biological systems and artificial cognitive systems.
Reviewer: Guy Jumarie (Montréal)
MSC:
93A30 | Mathematical modelling of systems (MSC2010) |
92D15 | Problems related to evolution |
68T05 | Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence |