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This paper attempts to characterise a unifying overview of the practice of software engineers, AI designers, developers of evolutionary forms of computation, designers of adaptive systems, etc. The topic overlaps with theoretical biology, developmental psychology and perhaps some aspects of social theory. Just as much of theoretical computer science follows the lead of engineering intuitions and tries to formalise them, there are also some important emerging high level cross disciplinary ideas about natural information processing architectures and evolutionary mechanisms and that can perhaps be unified and formalised in the future.
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Sloman, A. (1998). The “Semantics” of Evolution: Trajectories and Trade-Offs in Design Space and Niche Space. In: Coelho, H. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence — IBERAMIA 98. IBERAMIA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1484. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49795-1_3
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