Learning in the Cultural Process
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TL;DR
One of the central problems faced by biological and artificial systems is the development and maintenance of coordination between structure inside the system and structure outside the system.
Abstract
This paper reports a set of computer simulations that demonstrate a form of adaptation that we believe to be characteristic of human intelligence. One of the central problems faced by biological and artificial systems is the development and maintenance of coordination between structure inside the system and structure outside the system. That is, the production of useful behavior requires internal structures that respond in appropriate ways to structure in the environment. The processes that give rise to this coordination are generally considered adaptive. Biological evolution, individual learning, and cultural evolution can all be viewed as ways to discover and save solutions to frequently encountered problems—they are processes that generate coordination between internal and external structure.