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The machines of evolution and the scope of meaning /

"Merging recent evolutionary thought, theories of information and signs, and new findings in animal studies, Gary Tomlinson's The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning offers a groundbreaking account of meaning in our world"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tomlinson, Gary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Zone Books, 2023.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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588 |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2023). 
505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Setting Terms -- I. Limits of Transspeciesism -- II. Atoms of Aboutness -- III. Keywords -- Information -- Mediation -- Sign -- Interpretant -- Signal (vs. sign) -- Part Two: The Abstract Machines of Evolution -- IV. The Evolutionary Mise en Abyme -- V. Darwin's Abstract Machine: Natural Selection -- VI. A Post-Darwinian Abstract Machine: Niche Construction -- VII. Extended Evolution and the Mediation Machine -- VIII. Toward the Question of Meaning -- IX. Teleosemantics: Trait, Function, and Meaning 
505 8 |a X. Teleodynamics: Constraint, Work, and Meaning -- XI. The Fourth Machine: Semiosis -- XII. Abstract and Episodic Signs -- XIII. Attention, Situational and Analytic -- XIV. Episodic Memory: Assembling the Index -- XV. Principles -- Part Three: Meaningful and Meaningless Complexity -- In the Realm of Aboutness: Songbirds -- XVI. Birdsong Basics -- XVII. Birdsong Meanings and Complexity -- XVIII. Avian Interpretants -- XIX. Metarelations in the Songbird Brain -- Nonsignifying Marvels: Honeybees -- XX. Puzzles of Invertebrate Complexity -- XXI. Sociochemistry of the Superorganism 
505 8 |a XXII. Desemanticizing the Waggle Dance -- XXIII. What a Bee Brain Can't Do -- XXIV. Meaning and Meaninglessness -- Part Four: Outstanding Questions -- XXV. Questions Concerning Evolution -- XXVI. Questions Concerning Technology -- XXVII. Questions Concerning Culture -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Index 
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