Vagueness And The Evolution Of Consciousness
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Vagueness And The Evolution Of Consciousness
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Author : Michael Tye
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-08
Vagueness And The Evolution Of Consciousness written by Michael Tye 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 2021-07-08 with Philosophy categories.
When Alice stepped through the looking-glass, she encountered a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals. Everything there is inside out and upside down: so it is with consciousness. Reflecting on the inception of consciousness, it is natural to suppose that there are just two alternatives. Either consciousness appeared in living beings suddenly, like a light switch turning on, or it appeared gradually, like the biological development of life itself, through borderline cases which became the collective experience over time. For the former theory, consciousness is an on/off matter, but once it was there it became richer over time, like a beam of light becoming brighter and broader in its sweep. For the latter theory this is not the case, and there are shades of grey in how consciousness develops. Unfortunately, both alternatives face deep problems. The solution to these problems lies in the realization, strange as it may be, that a key element of consciousness itself was always here, as a fundamental feature of micro-reality. Varying conscious states were not, however: they appeared gradually. In Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness, Michael Tye addresses the questions that this raises. Where in the brain is consciousness located? How can consciousness be casually efficacious with respect to behaviour? What is the extent of consciousness in the animal world? How can all of this be so?
The Evolution Of Consciousness
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Author : Robert Evan Ornstein
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1991
The Evolution Of Consciousness written by Robert Evan Ornstein and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Philosophy categories.
1 I/S. Probes the evolutionary path of the human mind and the way we use it. On Booklist's Editors Choice list for 1991.
The Evolution Of Consciousness
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Author : Leonard Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
The Evolution Of Consciousness written by Leonard Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with Consciousness categories.
The Evolution Of Consciousness
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Author : Kishor Gandhi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Evolution Of Consciousness written by Kishor Gandhi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Consciousness categories.
Contributed articles.
The Ancient Origins Of Consciousness
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Author : Todd E. Feinberg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2017-09-08
The Ancient Origins Of Consciousness written by Todd E. Feinberg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Science categories.
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious. How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on recent scientific findings to answer these questions—and to tackle the most fundamental question about the nature of consciousness: how does the material brain create subjective experience? After assembling a list of the biological and neurobiological features that seem responsible for consciousness, and considering the fossil record of evolution, Feinberg and Mallatt argue that consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed. About 520 to 560 million years ago, they explain, the great “Cambrian explosion” of animal diversity produced the first complex brains, which were accompanied by the first appearance of consciousness; simple reflexive behaviors evolved into a unified inner world of subjective experiences. From this they deduce that all vertebrates are and have always been conscious—not just humans and other mammals, but also every fish, reptile, amphibian, and bird. Considering invertebrates, they find that arthropods (including insects and probably crustaceans) and cephalopods (including the octopus) meet many of the criteria for consciousness. The obvious and conventional wisdom–shattering implication is that consciousness evolved simultaneously but independently in the first vertebrates and possibly arthropods more than half a billion years ago. Combining evolutionary, neurobiological, and philosophical approaches allows Feinberg and Mallatt to offer an original solution to the “hard problem” of consciousness.
The Evolution Of Consciousness
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Author : Paula Droege
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-04
The Evolution Of Consciousness written by Paula Droege and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-04 with Philosophy categories.
The Evolution of Consciousness brings together interdisciplinary insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and cognitive science to explain consciousness in terms of the biological function that grounds it in the physical world. Drawing on the novel analogy of a house of cards, Paula Droege pieces together various conceptual questions and shows how they rest on each other to form a coherent, structured argument. She asserts that the mind is composed of unconscious sensory and cognitive representations, which become conscious when they are selected and coordinated into a representation of the present moment. This temporal representation theory deftly bridges the gap between mind and body by highlighting that physical systems are conscious when they can respond flexibly to actions in the present. With examples from evolution, animal cognition, introspection and the free will debate, this is a compelling and animated account of the possible explanations of consciousness, offering answers to the conceptual question of how consciousness can be considered a cognitive process.
Evolution And Consciousness
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Author : Michael Michelo DelMonte
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-09-02
Evolution And Consciousness written by Michael Michelo DelMonte and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-02 with Philosophy categories.
This volume provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the emerging concept of the evolution of consciousness. It presents an overarching model that moves us to a new level of meaning and understanding of our place in the world.
Evolving The Mind
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Author : A. Graham Cairns-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-03-21
Evolving The Mind written by A. Graham Cairns-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 1996-03-21 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Evolving the Mind has two main themes: how ideas about the mind evolved in science; and how the mind itself evolved in nature. The mind came into physical science when it was realised, first, that it is the activity of a physical object, a brain, which makes a mind; and secondly, that our theories of nature are largely mental constructions, artificial extensions of an inner model of the world which we inherited from our distant ancestors. From both of these perspectives, consciousness is the great enigma. If consciousness evolved, however, it is in some sense a material thing whatever else may be said of it. Physics, chemistry, molecular biology, brain function and evolutionary biology - almost the whole of science - is involved, and there can be no expert in all these fields. So the style of the book is simple, almost conversational. The excitement is that we seem to be close to a scientific theory of consciousness.
The Origin Of Consciousness
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Author : Charles Augustus Strong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
The Origin Of Consciousness written by Charles Augustus Strong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with Psychology categories.
A Mind So Rare
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Author : Merlin Donald
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2001
A Mind So Rare written by Merlin Donald and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Philosophy categories.
Donald (psychology, Queen's University, Canada) challenges the prevailing view that seeks to explain away human consciousness and presents a theory on the origins of the modern mind. He describes the cultural and neuronal forces that power human modes of awareness, and proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of the interweaving of the brain with an invisible symbolic web of culture to form a "distributed" cognitive network. Using evidence from brain and behavioral studies of humans and animals, he explains how an expansion of consciousness transcends the limitations of the mammalian mind, and elaborates the foundations of self-evaluation and self-reflection. c. Book News Inc.