Anthropological, Socio-Biological Framework as Master Architect of Human Cognitive Architectures

摘要

Biological taxonomies focuses on anatomical differentiation. A more robust systematics provides consideration that it is successful behavior (vs. anatomy) that endures survival pressures and that anatomical form is essentially the concatenated, genetically captured, satisficing substrate that supports ecologically successful behavioral patterns. Surviving characteristics may thus reflect Baldwin effect processes where, in this case, brain functionality, initially distributed across the nervous system, becomes consolidated or "hard-wired," much as computer software processes can for engineering reasons, become hardware-dedicated. Provided here is analysis of an architectural approach wherein a seminal documentation of human universal behaviors/linguistics (Brown, 1991) is down-constituted to provide a working, periodic "chart" of relatively molar behavioral elements, based on anthropologically-collected time investment studies. The specific hypothesis examined is that human universals reflect ancestral fitness functions that guided cognitive architectural design, and therefore, that representation of BICA today may benefit from an understanding of such ecologically-focused, cognitive systematics.