Biology of Knowledge: The Evolutionary Basis of Reason

by Rupert Riedel and Rupert Riedl

This bold study is intended to show not only how biological knowledge is acquired, but also how the biological cognitive process itself works, how organisms become aware of their life problems, which algorithms(methods of calculations) have proved reliable for dealing with information from their surroundings and activities, and how these methods become anchored in organisms. Attempts to expose reason's pitfalls and find solutions to some as yet unsolved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471103098
• ISBN13: 9780471103097
• Release Date: July 1984
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.