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Cumulative, Adaptive, Open-ended Change through Self-Other Reorganization: Reply to comment on 'An evolutionary process without variation and selection'
Liane Gabora, Mike Steel
Self-Other Reorganization (SOR) is a theory of how interacting entities or individuals, each of which can be described as an autocatalytic network, collectively exhibit cumulative,…
An evolutionary process without variation and selection
Liane Gabora, Mike Steel
Natural selection successfully explains how organisms accumulate adaptive change despite that traits acquired over a lifetime are eliminated at the end of each generation. However,…
How Does Culture Evolve?
Liane Gabora
This chapter synthesizes evidence from cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychological studies, and computational models for a complex systems inspired theory o…
Modeling a Cognitive Transition at the Origin of Cultural Evolution using Autocatalytic Networks
Liane Gabora, Mike Steel
Autocatalytic networks have been used to model the emergence of self-organizing structure capable of sustaining life and undergoing biological evolution. Here, we model the emergen…
The Form of a Half-baked Creative Idea: Empirical Explorations into the Structure of Ill-defined Mental Representations
Victoria S. Scotney, Jasmine Schwartz, Nicole Carbert +2
Creative thought is conventionally believed to involve searching memory and generating multiple independent candidate ideas followed by selection and refinement of the most promisi…
Exploring the Psychological Basis for Transitions in the Archaeological Record
Liane Gabora, Cameron M. Smith
In lieu of an abstract here is the first paragraph: No other species remotely approaches the human capacity for the cultural evolution of novelty that is accumulative, adaptive, an…