@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Dawkins,Richard}, subject = {Behavior}, note = {I 92 Genes have made animals active risk-taking vehicle. Behavior/genes/Dawkins: (Behavior in this chapter is physical behavior) Genuine protection of the genes is only possible if the time of muscle contraction is somehow coordinated with the outside world. I 95 As an intermediary, the genes first had to invent the brain. I 96 Behavior/intention/machine/Dawkins: It is not difficult to speak of machines that behave as if they had an intention. We can leave the question open. >Intentions, >Robots, >Artificial intelligence, >Artificial consciousness. Basically, the principles of unconscious purposeful behavior are basic skills of engineering. E.g. steam engine. Negative feedback. I 98 It is a fallacy that machines that were originally built by humans would have to be controlled by them. Similar fallacy, for example, that computers do not really play chess, because they "merely do what the operator tells them". But they must be able to play themselves, because there are more chess games than atoms in our galaxy. >Chess. I 111 Behavior/brain/gene/Dawkins: The brain even gives the survival machine the power to rebel against the dictation of the genes and, for example, to refuse to have many children. >Brain, >Brain/brain states. I 116 Behavior/communication/Dawkins: We can say that one survival machine is communicating with another when it affects their behavior or the condition of their nervous system. ((s) MaturanaVs: the central nervous system (CNS) cannot, for example, be influenced by anything from outside). Behavior: e.g. mole crickets sing in a hole in the earth, which amplifies their voice. I 152 Population/behavior/Dawkins: It may appear as if a population acted like a self-regulating unit. But that is a deception: it is aroused by a selection that takes place at the level of the individual gene. >Selection. I 153 Egoistic gene/Dawkins: The gene distributes its loyalty to different bodies.}, note = { Da I R. Dawkins The Selfish Gene, Oxford 1976 German Edition: Das egoistische Gen, Hamburg 1996 Da II M. St. Dawkins Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness, Oxford/New York/Heidelberg 1993 German Edition: Die Entdeckung des tierischen Bewusstseins Hamburg 1993 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=368991} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=368991} }