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Origins of Mind

Part of the Biosemiotics Book Series (volume 8)

Editors: Swan, Liz

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5419-5

ISBN: 978-94-007-5418-8

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Nov 20, 2012

1 - 10 of 21 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Exploring the Origins of Mindedness in Nature

Swan, Liz

Pages: 1 –17

[What is mind? This question is the single unifying force behind all efforts in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. When put in the context of biosemiotics and the broader life sciences, the question becomes, what is the nature of organic mindedness in the natural world? How did it evolve...
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Organic Codes and the Natural History of Mind

Barbieri, Marcello

Pages: 21 –52

[The purpose of this chapter is to show that organic codes played a key role in the origin and the evolution of mind as they had in all other great events of macroevolution. The presence of molecular adaptors has shown that the genetic code was only the first of a long series of codes in the...
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The Descent of Humanity: The Biological Roots of Human Consciousness, Culture and History

Recchia-Luciani, Angelo N. M.

Pages: 53 –84

[The notion of species-specific modelling allows us to construct taxonomies of mental models, based on the concept of qualia, such as posing ‘invariant requests to neural processes’, supporting networks of which are subject to selective pressures. The selection is based on their respective...
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From Non-minds to Minds: Biosemantics and the Tertium Quid

L’Hôte, Crystal

Pages: 85 –95

[I present and evaluate the prospects of the biosemantic program, understood as a philosophical attempt to explain the mind’s origins by appealing to something that non-minded organisms and minded organisms have in common: representational capacity. I develop an analogy with ancient attempts to...
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Cybersemiotics: A New Foundation for a Transdisciplinary Theory of Consciousness, Cognition, Meaning and Communication

Brier, Soren

Pages: 97 –126

[The modern evolutionary paradigm combined with phenomenology forces us to view human consciousness as a product of evolution as well as accept humans as observers from the ‘inside of the universe’. The knowledge produced by science has first-person embodied consciousness combined with...
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The Emergence of Empathy in the Context of Cross-Species Mind Reading

Sarnecki, John

Pages: 129 –142

[Evolutionary accounts of the origins of mind reading and empathy have emphasized the reproductive and social value of understanding other human minds. On this view, selective pressures within human communities contributed to our capacity to imagine ourselves in the spatiotemporal and cognitive...
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The Evolution of Scenario Visualization and the Early Hominin Mind

Arp, Robert

Pages: 143 –159

[In this chapter, I argue that scenario visualization—viz., a mental activity whereby visual images are selected, integrated, and then transformed and projected into visual scenarios for the purposes of solving problems in the environments one inhabits—emerged in our hominin past and accounts for...
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Representation in Biological Systems: Teleofunction, Etiology, and Structural Preservation

Nair-Collins, Michael

Pages: 161 –185

[In this chapter I propose a novel thesis about the nature of representation in biological systems. I argue that what makes something a representation is distinct from what determines representational content. As such, it is useful to conceptualize what it is to be a representation in terms of...
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Beyond Embodiment: From Internal Representation of Action to Symbolic Processes

da Fonseca, Isabel Barahona; da Fonseca, Jose Barahona; Pereira, Vitor

Pages: 187 –199

[In sensorimotor integration, representation involves an anticipatory model of the action to be performed. This model integrates efferent signals (motor commands), its reafferent consequences (sensory consequences of an organism’s own motor action), and other afferences (sensory signals)...
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Imitation, Skill Learning, and Conceptual Thought: An Embodied, Developmental Approach

Fridland, Ellen

Pages: 203 –224

[It is the goal of this chapter to offer a strategy for moving from imitation to conceptual thought. First, I accept that imitation plays a vital role in accounting for the facility with which human beings acquire abilities, but I argue that successful task performance is not identical to...

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