A defining feature of biology is the use of a multiscale architecture, ranging from molecular
networks to cells, tissues, organs, whole bodies, and swarms. Crucially however, biology is …

Godfrey-Smith's environmental complexity thesis (ECT) is most often applied to multicellular
animals and the complexity of their macroscopic environments to explain how cognition …

The idea of integrating evolutionary biology and psychology has great promise, but one that
will be compromised if psychological functions are conceived too abstractly and …

We define a cognitive system as a system that can learn, and adopt an evolutionary-
transition-oriented framework for analysing different types of neural cognition. This enables …

Cognitive theory has decomposed human mental abilities into cognitive (sub) systems, and
cognitive neuroscience succeeded in disclosing a host of relationships between cognitive …

Progress in understanding cognition requires a quantitative, theoretical framework,
grounded in the other natural sciences and able to bridge between implementational …

The Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our
cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, the book …

Traditionally, in cognitive science the emphasis is on studying cognition from a
computational point of view. Studies in biologically inspired robotics and embodied …