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Evolutionary convergence and biologically embodied cognition.
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- Learning in Cnidaria: A systematic review.Learning & behavior · 2021Pooled it
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- Associative learning in the cnidarianProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Cellular Competency during Development Alters Evolutionary Dynamics in an Artificial Embryogeny Model.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Evolution of Brains and Computers: The Roads Not Taken.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Neuroecology beyond the brain: learning in Echinodermata.Learning & behavior · 2022Review
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- Toward Studying Cognition in a Dish.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021Review
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- Uncovering cognitive similarities and differences, conservation and innovation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Plants are intelligent, here's how.Annals of botany · 2020Article
- Reappraising the exteriorization of the mammalian testes through evolutionary physiology.Communicative & integrative biology · 2019Review
- Senomic view of the cell: SenomeCommunicative & integrative biology · 2018Review
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Abstract
The study of evolutionary patterns of cognitive convergence would be greatly helped by a clear demarcation of cognition. Cognition is often used as an equivalent of mind, making it difficult to pin down empirically or to apply it confidently beyond the human condition. Recent developments in embodied cognition and philosophy of biology now suggest an interpretation that dissociates cognition from this mental context. Instead, it anchors cognition in a broad range of biological cases of intelligence, provisionally marked by a basic cognitive toolkit. This conception of cognition as an empirically based phenomenon provides a suitable and greatly expanded domain for studies of evolutionary convergence. This paper first introduces this wide, biologically embodied interpretation of cognition. Second, it discusses examples drawn from studies on bacteria, plants and fungi that all provide cases fulfilling the criteria for this wide interpretation. Third, the field of early nervous system evolution is used to illustrate how biologically embodied cognition raises new fundamental questions for research on animal cognition. Finally, an outline is given of the implications for the evolutionary convergence of cognition.
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