Episode 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)
The Theory of Anything
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The Baldwin Effect and Animal Behavior
Animals have atarithms in their gens that they follow. And nicholas cristacus, i won't read this whole t here, but in blue print, he talks about this as well. He talks about how, overtimes, certain behaviors that were previously learned may become genetic. They call this the baldwin effect. This is very important thing to understand. It does not demonstrate that animals get all their knowledge from the genes. However, they do get all their open ended knowledge creation from regular genetic evolution. We need to go back and we need to understand buggy animal behavior in the light of what we actually know with the baldwin effects.
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