Shinya Kato

The Evolutionary Paradox of Human Intelligence ー Why Intelligence Does Not Eliminate War

The dynamics described here parallel cultural narratives such as the Tower of Babel.In that story, a collectively constructed symbolic structure expands until it exceeds the constraints of the external world,after which the shared referential network collapses and language fragme...

From Environmental Structure to Biodiversity: The Referential Function of Life

Darwinian natural selection explains how advantageous traits become established through differential survival and reproduction, but it provides a less direct explanation for how organisms progressively acquire novel adaptive capacities and generate increasing biological diversity...