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Fig. 7.10 Advanced Darwin scenarios are set up in a range of playful make and break style
assembly tasks, also incorporating several elements of goal-directed reasoning, inspired by similar
studies in animal and infant cognition
goals and, at the same time, keep learning new things. Open-endedness, cumu-
latively and growth of a continuously learning system, and gradual emergence of
generativity/creativity in their behaviors are natural consequences arising out of
such a scheme as different sections in our chapter demonstrate.
In this concluding section, we do not intend to summarize all that has been said
so far but instead quickly relate all this to a very fundamental evolutionary function,
namely, “navigation,” an activity that all living organisms engage in. It is already
developed in a sophisticated way in rats, for example, but much more so in humans,
with plenty of added/recycled value (green learning!). The computational basis of
this added value, at the same time grounded in the biology of the brain and recreated