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Digital life, a theory of minds, and mapping human and machine cultural universals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

Kevin B. Clark Open the ORCID record for Kevin B. Clark [Opens in a new window]
Kevin B. Clark*
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Research and Development Service, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA90073 Felidae Conservation Fund, Mill Valley, CA94941 Campus Champions, Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL61801 Expert Network, Penn Center for Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA19104 Virus Focus Group, NASA Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035. kbclarkphd@yahoo.com www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-clark/58/67/19a
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Abstract

Emerging cybertechnologies, such as social digibots, bend epistemological conventions of life and culture already complicated by human and animal relationships. Virtually-augmented niches of machines and organic life promise new free-energy-governed selection of intelligent digital life. These provocative eco-evolutionary contexts demand a theory of (natural and artificial) minds to characterize and validate the immersive social phenomena universally-shaping cultural affordances.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e98
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