I would say the e-coli’s fitness function has some kind of reflection baked into it, as does a human’s fitness function. The qualitative difference between the two is that a human’s own world model also has an explicit self-model in it, which is separate from the reflection baked into a human’s fitness function.
After that, I’d say that deriving the (probable) mechanistic properties from the fitness functions is the name of the game.
… so yeah, I’m on basically the same page as you here.
I would say the e-coli’s fitness function has some kind of reflection baked into it, as does a human’s fitness function. The qualitative difference between the two is that a human’s own world model also has an explicit self-model in it, which is separate from the reflection baked into a human’s fitness function.
After that, I’d say that deriving the (probable) mechanistic properties from the fitness functions is the name of the game.
… so yeah, I’m on basically the same page as you here.