Origins of Mind - Swan, Liz.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Introduction: exploring the origins of mindedness in nature -- BIOSEMIOTICS -- 1. Organic Codes and the Natural History of Mind -- 2. The Descent of Humanity -- 3. From Non-Minds to Minds: biosemantics and the Tertium Quid -- 4. Cybersemiotics:  a new foundation for a transdisciplinary theory of consciousness, cognition, meaning and communication -- MENTAL REPRESENTATION -- 5. The Emergence of Empathy in the Context of Cross-Species Mind-reading -- 6. The Evolution of Scenario Visualization and the Early Hominin Mind -- 7. Representation in Biological Systems: teleofunction, etiology, and structural preservation -- 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 -- 10. Evolving Consciousness: the very idea! -- 11. Mind or Mechanism: which came first? -- 12. Origins of the Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness: evolutionary answers to Chalmers' hard problem -- PHILOSOPHY OF MIND -- 13. Neuropragmatism on the Origins of Conscious Minding -- 14. Not So Exceptional: away from Chomskian salationism and towards a naturally gradual   account of mindfulness -- 15. Mental Organs and the Origins of Mind -- 16. Mnemo-psychography: the origin of mind and the problem of biological memory storage -- SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE -- 17. Minimal Mind -- 18. Concept Combination and the Origins of Complex Cognition -- 19. The Mind of the Noble Ape in Three Simulations -- 20. From the Natural Brain to the Artificial Mind.
Keywords: Life sciences; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of nature; Biological psychology; Anthropology; Computer simulation; Life Sciences, general; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Nature; Biological Psychology; Anthropology; Simulation and Modeling