BI 127 Tomás Ryan: Memory, Instinct, and Forgetting
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Is There a Continuum of Instincts?
Is it wrong to say form new instincts, or would the instincts always already be there? Because you think of instinct and memory as a continuum. I m fascinated by that question. And i i really like to take both an evolutionary and a developmental approach when trying to understand memory and instincts. This actually reminds me of stuart coffman's concept of a the adjacent possible,. So that, you know, every new step we take opens up unknowable, but next new steps that, in this story, riht, those next new steps wold be ern learning during the lifetime. That then narrow down the future possibilities, but we can't really predict how that's going to happen
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