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Origins of Mind
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Colección: | Biosemiotics,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.