Origins of Mind /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Swan, Liz. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Biosemiotics, 8
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.