BIO320H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: A Black Box, Evolutionary Ecology, Comparative Physiology
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Infor processing to solve problems (depends on complexity constraining or broad) How the brain deals with external world (broad) Perspective of conscious, animal brains they are difficult to integrate access info coming in and limitation and predict what info was processed and stored. However we don(cid:495)t know really know anything about it - stimulus response system. Touched upon in the origin and more explicitly in later works. In 1800 book: that different mental capacity differed in degree but not in mind. Animal were more cognitive than others but no difference. Very egocentric, us as special: ecology influenced by evolution- biology influenced, focused on species and taken out people out of the picture. Cognitive ecology is rebranding of etiology, born from it was behavioural ecology 0 learning development, cognitive ecology- reinvention of etiology but taking a flexible view of etiology. Acquisition and maintenance of neuronal representation of new information.
