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Artificial Intelligence and Biological Intelligence

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Intelligence and Evolutionary Biology

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It is often said that there can be no such thing as artificial intelligence. For certain, there is no such thing as biological intelligence. There are, however, biological intelligences. Animals have evolved many different motor and perceptual strategies to cope with the world ╍ indeed, these strategies are so different that one might rather say “their worlds”, as we shall see. The “space” of biological intelligences is not yet fully charted, nor have all the relevant dimensions even been identified. I shall argue that this exploration and theoretical mapping may benefit from some of the insights of artificial intelligence (AI).

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  1. Cognitive Studies Programme, University of Sussex, UK

    Margaret A. Boden

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, 90024, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Boden, M.A. (1988). Artificial Intelligence and Biological Intelligence. In: Jerison, H.J., Jerison, I. (eds) Intelligence and Evolutionary Biology. NATO ASI Series, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70877-0_4

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