You assume implicitly a strict connection between cognition and evolution
That assumption follows pretty straightforwardly from evolution and some trivial observations. If I meet a human, I expect with high likelihood that they will have cognitive capabilities in the ballpark with mine. If I meet a lobster, tree, or rock, then I expect with high likelihood that they will not have such cognitive capabilities. I assume that relationship is based on the way the thing is constructed.
You’re assuming evolution (and natural selection) as a basis for shaping cognition with the robots, and then produce altruism.
Why not assume culture and program robots like that and call it evidence for cultural shaping which has nopthing to do with evolution?
My point is, you’re trying to prove cognitive evolution via...cognitive evolution while assuming evolution shapes cognition.
And to remind you, altruism is culturally shaped. See for example capitalism VS communism or the cult named radiofreedomain which advocates acting towards family as any other human being.
My point is, you’re trying to prove cognitive evolution via...cognitive evolution while assuming evolution shapes cognition
No. He’s saying “if evolution shapes cognition this is what we would expect. Oh, hey, look! We see that.”
Incidentally, I suspect that even you don’t think that evolution and cognition are completely unrelated. Different species are in different niches with different degrees of intelligence, and there’s a heavy correlation between what sort of niche a species is in and how intelligent it is. Thus for example, omnivores are generally more intelligent than other species of similar size.
That assumption follows pretty straightforwardly from evolution and some trivial observations. If I meet a human, I expect with high likelihood that they will have cognitive capabilities in the ballpark with mine. If I meet a lobster, tree, or rock, then I expect with high likelihood that they will not have such cognitive capabilities. I assume that relationship is based on the way the thing is constructed.
Or am I misunderstanding you?
You’re assuming evolution (and natural selection) as a basis for shaping cognition with the robots, and then produce altruism. Why not assume culture and program robots like that and call it evidence for cultural shaping which has nopthing to do with evolution?
My point is, you’re trying to prove cognitive evolution via...cognitive evolution while assuming evolution shapes cognition. And to remind you, altruism is culturally shaped. See for example capitalism VS communism or the cult named radiofreedomain which advocates acting towards family as any other human being.
No. He’s saying “if evolution shapes cognition this is what we would expect. Oh, hey, look! We see that.”
Incidentally, I suspect that even you don’t think that evolution and cognition are completely unrelated. Different species are in different niches with different degrees of intelligence, and there’s a heavy correlation between what sort of niche a species is in and how intelligent it is. Thus for example, omnivores are generally more intelligent than other species of similar size.