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Neither ghost nor machine : the emergence and nature of selves /
If the universe is aimless, how do selves and aims emerge' Why do living beings have aims when inanimate things do not' Current science encourages us to reject the ghost-in-the-machine explanation'that something called spirit, soul, mind, or will was somehow breathed into matter'...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Forward / Terrence Deacon
- I. Overview
- The mystery of purpose
- The biggest mystery we ever ignore
- Deacon's solution in brief
- II. Framing the mystery
- Two sources of change
- Selves
- Two ghosts, two machines
- Interpretation
- Aims
- Evolution's limited limiting role
- III. Dead ends, live clues
- The history
- Evolutionary theory's elusive self
- Information about nothing for anyone
- The engineered ghosts in our machines
- Small is dubious
- IV. Grounding is a solution
- Processes of emergent elimination
- Second law irregularity
- Emergent regularization
- Emergent regularization vs. emergent self-regeneration
- Other emergent regularization dynamics
- Coupled regularization processes
- V. Deacon's solution
- Autogens: self-generators
- Evolved autogens
- Where is the self?
- The consequences of self-regeneration
- VI. The interpreting self
- Codes, signs, interpretations
- Kinds of signs
- VII. Implications
- A constraint-based approach to evolutionary theory
- Implications for the free will debate?
- Making science safe for value.