Origins of Mind

2013
ISBN: 978-94-007-9505-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 6496 g

Reihe: Biosemiotics

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 from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and
who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness
in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdiscipline of biosemiotics has so far by
and large focused on codes, signs and sign processes in the microworld—a fact that reflects
the field’s strong representation in microbiology and embryology. What philosophers of mind
and cognitive scientists can contribute to the growing interdiscipline are insights into how the
biosemiotic weltanschauung applies to complex organisms like humans where such signs and
sign processes constitute human society and culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swan, Liz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Semiotik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Geisteswissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: exploring the origins of mindedness in nature; Liz Swan
BIOSEMIOTICS
1. Organic Codes and the Natural History of Mind; Marcello Barbieri
2. The Descent of Humanity; Angelo Recchia-Luciani
3. From Non-Minds to Minds: biosemantics and the Tertium Quid; Crystal L’Hote
4. Cybersemiotics:  a new foundation for a transdisciplinary theory of consciousness, cognition, meaning and communication; Soren Brier
MENTAL REPRESENTATION
5. The Emergence of Empathy in the Context of Cross-Species Mind-reading; John Sarnecki
6. The Evolution of Scenario Visualization and the Early Hominin Mind; Rob Arp
7. Representation in Biological Systems: teleofunction, etiology, and structural preservation; Michael Nair-Collins
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; Ellen Fridland
10. Evolving Consciousness: the very idea! James Fetzer
11. Mind or Mechanism: which came first? Teed Rockwell
12. Origins of the Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness: evolutionary answers to Chalmers’ hard problem; Jonathan Tsou
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
13. Neuropragmatism on the Origins of Conscious Minding; Tibor Solymosi
14. Not So Exceptional: away from Chomskian salationism and towards a naturally gradual   account of mindfulness; Andrew Winters and Alex Levine
15. Mental Organs and the Origins of Mind; Thomas Ray
16. Mnemo-psychography: the origin of mind and the problem of biological memory storage; Frank Scalambrino
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
17. Minimal Mind; Alexei Sharov
18. Concept Combination and the Origins of Complex Cognition; Liane Gabora and Kirsty Kitto
19. The Mind of the Noble Ape in Three Simulations; Tom Barbalet
20. From the Natural Brain to the Artificial Mind; Massimo Negrotti