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Pulling the trigger on the living kind module

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Peter M. Todd
Affiliation:
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany ptodd@mpib-berlin.mpg.de www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/users/ptodd
Alejandro López
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, 22527 Hamburg, Germany alelopez@puc.cl
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Abstract

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Atran conjectures that a triggering algorithm for a living-kind module could involve inputs from other modules that detect animacy and intentionality. Here we further speculate about how algorithms for detecting specific intentions could be used to trigger between- or within-species categorization. Such categorization may be adaptively important in Eldredge's energy and information realms.

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© 1998 Cambridge University Press