Patrick comments on You can't signal to rubes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Patrick 01 January 2013 04:11:56PM 0 points [-]

I meant the peacock example evolutionarily. I got it from The Selfish Gene.

Comment author: hyporational 01 January 2013 04:21:37PM 0 points [-]

I thought so. I think it might be useful to have a different word for signaling on each side of the e-c boundary, since signaling clearly can't mean the same thing on both sides.

Comment author: Patrick 01 January 2013 04:51:39PM 1 point [-]

Why not? Can't we regard evolutionary signalling as completely analogous to cognitive signalling, just as played by genes over a much longer time scale?