Contribution of the Genetical and Neural Memory to Animal Intelligence

Natural sciences and the evolutionary models

“…The animals' activity is not simply organized by responses to the external stimuli, but also by expectation of situations based on the internal analysis of the model formed in the nervous system (Gallistel 1980). The model includes sequences of occurring events, which are used by the brain as an internal reference for control, for example, of eliciting fear (Hebb 1946), of orientation (Sokolov 1960), of attack and defense (Archer 1976), and of avoidance of predators (Csányi 1985a(Csányi , 1985b(Csányi , 1986(Csányi ,1988. In higher animals, the formation of an environmental model involves the internal representation of the animal itself to a great extent.…”

“…The functional elements that link percepts and actions are called "referential structures." The "key-referential structure-action" triadic units can be combined through the referential structures and their complicated constructs are the very models of the environment (Csányi 1988).…”

The adaptive nature of ``meaning as understanding''

“…Csányi 1992). The proportion of genetically determined knowledge of the environment and of the necessary behavior therein on the one hand and individual experience and learned behavior on the other within that model is a function of both the complexity of the organism and of its environment (Bonner 1980, 138;Csányi 1988;Plotkin 1994, 149). The notion of environment, though, includes not only the natural and material environment but, relative to the complexity of the behavioral organization of a species, also their social and cultural environment.…”