Complexity And The Function Of Mind In Nature
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Complexity And The Function Of Mind In Nature
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Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-28
Complexity And The Function Of Mind In Nature written by Peter Godfrey-Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-28 with Philosophy categories.
This book explains the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing links philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of 'externalist' explanations. The author provides a biological approach to the investigation of mind and cognition in nature. In particular he explores the idea that the function of cognition is to enable agents to deal with environmental complexity. The history of the idea in the work of Dewey and Spencer is considered, as is the impact of recent evolutionary theory on our understanding of the place of mind in nature.
Mind And Nature
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Author : Gregory Bateson
language : en
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
Release Date : 2002
Mind And Nature written by Gregory Bateson and has been published by Hampton Press (NJ) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Ethnology categories.
A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.
Evolution Development And Complexity
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Author : Georgi Yordanov Georgiev
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-06-25
Evolution Development And Complexity written by Georgi Yordanov Georgiev and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-25 with Science categories.
This book explores the universe and its subsystems from the three lenses of evolutionary (contingent), developmental (predictable), and complex (adaptive) processes at all scales. It draws from prolific experts within the academic disciplines of complexity science, physical science, information and computer science, theoretical and evo-devo biology, cosmology, astrobiology, evolutionary theory, developmental theory, and philosophy. The chapters come from a Satellite Meeting, "Evolution, Development and Complexity" (EDC) hosted at the Conference on Complex Systems, in Cancun, 2017. The contributions have been peer-reviewed and contributors from outside the conference were invited to submit chapters to ensure full coverage of the topics. This book explores many issues within the field of EDC such as the interaction of evolutionary stochasticity and developmental determinism in biological systems and what they might teach us about these twin processes in other complex systems. This text will appeal to students and researchers within the complex systems and EDC fields.
How Can Physics Underlie The Mind
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Author : George Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-05-31
How Can Physics Underlie The Mind written by George Ellis and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-31 with Science categories.
Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible? How can our own lives emerge from interactions of electrons, protons, and neutrons? This book considers the interaction of physical and non-physical causation in complex systems such as living beings, and in particular in the human brain, relating this to the emergence of higher levels of complexity with real causal powers. In particular it explores the idea of top-down causation, which is the key effect allowing the emergence of true complexity and also enables the causal efficacy of non-physical entities, including the value of money, social conventions, and ethical choices.
Evolutionary Ethics And Contemporary Biology
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Author : Giovanni Boniolo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-03
Evolutionary Ethics And Contemporary Biology written by Giovanni Boniolo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-03 with Science categories.
How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. Written by a team of philosophers and scientists, the essays collected in this volume deal with the limits of evolutionary explanations, the justifications of ethics, and methodological issues concerning evolutionary accounts of ethics, among other topics. They offer deep insights into the origin and purpose of human moral capacities and of moral systems.
Biological Complexity And Integrative Pluralism
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Author : Sandra D. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-09-15
Biological Complexity And Integrative Pluralism written by Sandra D. Mitchell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-15 with Philosophy categories.
This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defense of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theories to a few fundamental laws of the most basic particles that populate our universe is ill-suited to the biological sciences, which study multi-component, multi-level, evolved complex systems. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science
From Animals To Animats 7
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Author : Bridget Hallam
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2002
From Animals To Animats 7 written by Bridget Hallam and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Computers categories.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
How Physics Makes Us Free
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Author : Jenann Ismael
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
How Physics Makes Us Free written by Jenann Ismael and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy categories.
In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very same laws that keep airplanes in the air and rivers flowing downhill tell us that it is in principle possible to predict what each of us will do every second of our entire lives, given the early conditions of the universe. Can it really be that even while you toss and turn late at night in the throes of an important decision and it seems like the scales of fate hang in the balance, that your decision is a foregone conclusion? Can it really be that everything you have done and everything you ever will do is determined by facts that were in place long before you were born? This problem is one of the staples of philosophical discussion. It is discussed by everyone from freshman in their first philosophy class, to theoretical physicists in bars after conferences. And yet there is no topic that remains more unsettling, and less well understood. If you want to get behind the facade, past the bare statement of determinism, and really try to understand what physics is telling us in its own terms, read this book. The problem of free will raises all kinds of questions. What does it mean to make a decision, and what does it mean to say that our actions are determined? What are laws of nature? What are causes? What sorts of things are we, when viewed through the lenses of physics, and how do we fit into the natural order? Ismael provides a deeply informed account of what physics tells us about ourselves. The result is a vision that is abstract, alien, illuminating, and-Ismael argues-affirmative of most of what we all believe about our own freedom. Written in a jargon-free style, How Physics Makes Us Free provides an accessible and innovative take on a central question of human existence. "
The Nature Of Life
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Author : Mark A. Bedau
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-22
The Nature Of Life written by Mark A. Bedau and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-22 with Philosophy categories.
Introduces a broad range of scientific and philosophical issues about life through the original historical and contemporary sources.
The Mind And Its Place In Nature
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Author : C.D. Broad
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
The Mind And Its Place In Nature written by C.D. Broad and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Philosophy categories.
This is Volume III of eight in a collection on the Philosophy of the Mind and Language. Originally published in 1925, this text looks at alternative theories of life and mind at the level of enlightened common-sense; the Mind's knowledge of Existents and the Unconscious.