Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital

Posted by Jochen Fromm-5 on Aug 03, 2020; 6:29am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Intentionality-is-the-Mark-of-the-Vital-tp7598081.html

One of my favorite papers from Nick is the paper „Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital“. Maybe because every piece of code I write as a developer has a certain purpose and intention. Genetic code contains instructions & recipes too. It has an „intention“.

 

Why is that so many of the good papers are a collaboration of two persons from different departments? Wilson & Sober have written a paper about group selection, Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson too:

 

Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital

Nicholas Simonds Thompson & Patrick G. Derr

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302294783_Intentionality_is_the_Mark_of_the_Vital

 

Reintroducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences

David Sloan Wilson & Elliott Sober

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243771813_Reintroducing_Group_Selection_to_the_Human_Behavioral_Sciences

 

Transmission coupling mechanisms: Cultural group selection

Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47644497_Transmission_coupling_mechanisms_Cultural_group_selection

 

Many more papers from Boyd & Richerson can be found here at https://www.robboyd.net/publications

 

-J.

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