The Emergence of Shared Intentions & the Advance of Cumulative Culture
Channel: SharedIntentions.net
Date: 2015-10-31

If shared intentions are now ubiquitous among humankind and are one of the distinguishing features of what it means to be human, where did shared intentions come from? How did become so wide-spread as they are today? This points to a question of /origins/. In this Quick Guide, we provide an overview of the research study by Angus & Newton (2015), "Emergence of Shared Intentions is coupled to the Advance of Cumulative Culture" (PLoS Computational Biology). For the first time, this study provides a potential mechanism for the ubiquity of shared intentions, whilst also explaining under what conditions shared intentions would have all but disappeared.