Origins of Mind

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Swan, Liz (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Biosemiotics, 8
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy of nature.; Computer simulation.; Anthropology.; Biological psychology.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Philosophy of Mind.; Philosophy of Nature.; Biological Psychology.; Simulation and Modeling.

The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere fro...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: exploring the origins of mindedness in nature
• BIOSEMIOTICS
• 1. Organic Codes and the Natural History of Mind
• 2. The Descent of Humanity
• 3. From Non-Minds to Minds: biosemantics and the Tertium Quid
• 4. Cybersemiotics:  a new foundation for a transdisciplinary theory of consciousness, cognition, meaning and communication
• MENTAL REPRESENTATION
• 5. The Emergence of Empathy in the Context of Cross-Species Mind-reading
• 6. The Evolution of Scenario Visualization and the Early Hominin Mind
• 7. Representation in Biological Systems: teleofunction, etiology, and structural preservation
• 8. Beyond embodiment: from internal representation of action to symbolic processes; Isabel Barahona da Fonseca
• CONSCIOUSNESS
• 9. Imitation, Learning, and Conceptual Thought: an embodied, developmental approach
• 10. Evolving Consciousness: the very idea!
• 11. Mind or Mechanism: which came first?
• 12. Origins of the Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness: evolutionary answers to Chalmers’ hard problem
• PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
• 13. Neuropragmatism on the Origins of Conscious Minding
• 14. Not So Exceptional: away from Chomskian salationism and towards a naturally gradual   account of mindfulness
• 15. Mental Organs and the Origins of Mind
• 16. Mnemo-psychography: the origin of mind and the problem of biological memory storage
• SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
• 17. Minimal Mind
• 18. Concept Combination and the Origins of Complex Cognition
• 19. The Mind of the Noble Ape in Three Simulations
• 20. From the Natural Brain to the Artificial Mind.