Our theories of perceptual categorization must be informed by explicit dynamical models of perceptual evolution, models such as those studied in evolutionary game theory [14, 26, 33]. Our perceptual categories are shaped inter alia by facto…the Rear-Mirror: Romantic Aesthetics, Culture, and Science Seen from Today. Festschrift for Frederick Burwick on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, ed. W. Pape (WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: Trier) (Studien zur Englischen Roma…
Natalia L. Komarova
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Komarova's work on evolutionary game theory and perceptual categorization appears as a theoretical foundation for understanding how sensory systems and aesthetic categories evolve under selective pressure rather than emerging from pure cognition. The reading invokes her models to ground perceptual evolution in dynamical systems—suggesting that what we perceive and how we categorize it are artifacts of biological competition and adaptation, not neutral or universal cognitive structures. This connects to the course's interest in how intelligence and perception themselves are shaped by cybernetic feedback loops and competitive evolutionary dynamics rather than being design-independent phenomena.
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