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Intelligence and cognition are presently viewed as processes of evolution. This finding—as well as the detailed research into the dynamics of these processes—supports the idea that the various evolutionary moments are intertwined in a logic of a successive multi-level emergence.
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Argument very well discussed in the book Pearl and MacKensey (2018).
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Pearl, J., & MacKensey, D. (2018). The book of why: The new science of cause and effect. New York, NY: Basic Books.
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Pereira, L.M., Lopes, A.B. (2020). Cognition in Context: An Evolutionary Logic Impacting Our Individual and Collective Worlds. In: Machine Ethics. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 53. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39630-5_5
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