Evolution of Complex Behavior, Perception, Cognition, Consciousness & the Brain | Paul Cisek | 107
Mind & Matter
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The Concept of Affordances in Animals
As animals get more mobile, they encounter more complex worlds. As the sensory motor machinery expands in its sophistication a little bit, it enables certain kinds of interactions and therefore discovers those sort of affordances. And so I think that's essentially what happens in evolution. It's the gradual extension of the closed loop control further and further into more complex world to take advantage of things.
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