An expected fitness maximiser is just an expected utility maximiser, where the utility function is God’s utility function.
I searched Google for “expected utility maximiser” and the 6th hit was your own website:
An expected utility maximiser is a theoretical agent who considers its actions, computes their consequences and then rates them according to a utility function.
The typical organism just doesn’t do this. I think you’d have a hard time arguing that even a higher mammal does this.
I am not clear about your claim that Deep Blue thinks, but organisms do not. Are you ignoring animals?
I didn’t say organisms don’t think. I said they don’t think about their fitness. They think about things like surviving, eating, finding mates, and so on, all of which usually contribute to reproduction in a natural environment.
The proof of this really is the way that a great many humans have indeed rebelled against their genes, and knowingly choose not to maximise their fitness. Dawkins, for example, has only one child. As a high-status male, he could presumably have had many more.
An expected fitness maximiser is just an expected utility maximiser, where the utility function is God’s utility function.
I searched Google for “expected utility maximiser” and the 6th hit was your own website:
An expected utility maximiser is a theoretical agent who considers its actions, computes their consequences and then rates them according to a utility function.
The typical organism just doesn’t do this. I think you’d have a hard time arguing that even a higher mammal does this.
I am not clear about your claim that Deep Blue thinks, but organisms do not. Are you ignoring animals?
I didn’t say organisms don’t think. I said they don’t think about their fitness. They think about things like surviving, eating, finding mates, and so on, all of which usually contribute to reproduction in a natural environment.
The proof of this really is the way that a great many humans have indeed rebelled against their genes, and knowingly choose not to maximise their fitness. Dawkins, for example, has only one child. As a high-status male, he could presumably have had many more.