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ab initio methods 71
academic politics 295 , 304 , 350
accidents, in origins of life 30–31
Acts of Meaning (Bruner) 308
Ad Vitellionem (Kepler) 259
Adam 153
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Barkow, Cosmides & Tooby) 306 , 319
Advanced Research Programs Agency (arpa) 294 , 304 , 306
affordances 127–128 , 130–131 , 132 , 133 , 135 , 137 , 149 , 182 , 341–342
“Affordances” (Gibson) 128
agriculture 163
AI (Artificial Intelligence) 67 , 244 , 252 , 272 , 280 , 294 , 300 , 304 , 306 , 313 , 329gofai
Alexander, Samuel 228
algorithms 61 , 79 , 324
Alhazen 259
Allen Institute for Brain Science 189
Allport, Gordon 321
alphabets 160
Alzheimer's disease 112 , 208 , 288
Ames illusion 137
The Ancestor’s Tale (Dawkins) 32
Anderson, Philip
criticism on 50
views of
on “broken symmetry” theory 96
on computer modelling 80 , 81–82
on hierarchies of emergence 91–92
on reduction 49 , 69
on water 232
mention of 65 , 351
animal brains
and animal minds 47
research on 238animal minds
animal mind/brain system 119 , 121 , 122 , 185 , 187 , 190 , 191–192 , 238
animal minds
absence of
in general 45 , 105–106
in bees 116–117 , 124
in frogs 108 , 113–114 , 117 , 123 , 124
in spiders 113
and animal brains 47
consciousness/unconsciousness in 137 , 176 , 183 , 209 , 213 , 216
definitions of 110
and Ego 209–210
emergence/origins of 44–45 , 46 , 51 , 98
and human minds
differences between 190 , 341
emergence from 46 , 105 , 145–146
presence of
in general 106 , 107–108 , 110–111
in apes 46 , 107
in bees 108–110 , 114
in birds 46 , 110 , 119 , 125
in dogs 107–108
in rats 108 , 110 , 112–113 , 114 , 119
research on 47 , 117–118
as stimulus-response organs 45 , 106
views on
of Behaviourists 45 , 106 , 114–115
of Donald 110–111 , 113 , 117 , 118–119
of Donald vs. Deacon 140–152
of Griffin 45 , 108–109
of Morowitz 45animal brains
Animal Minds (Griffin) 109–110
animal spirits 106 , 257 , 260 , 264 , 266 , 271
animals
brains of. see animal brains
Ego in 209–210
emotions in 212
environments of 107 , 127
episodic culture of 141 , 147 , 149 , 154–155 , 167 , 192–193
free will in 210
language acquisition in 149 , 153
mind/brain systems of. see animal mind/brain system
minds of. see animal minds
perception in 123–125 , 127
playing of 139
rationality 209
self-consciousness in. see under self-consciousnesslower animals; under specific animals
apes/primates 147–149 , 203 , 209–210 , 211–212bonobos; chimpanzees; gorillas
Aplysia California 118
Aristotle
views of
on Democritus 271
on language 152–153
on mind-body relation 106 , 254 , 255–256 , 342
on perception 257–258 , 259 , 260
on reason 206–207 , 211
on senses 215
mention of 227 , 316 , 352
Arnheim, Rudolf 131 , 135 , 158
arpa (Advanced Research Programs Agency) 294 , 304 , 306
Ars Poetica (Horace) 158
art
as aides mémoire 157
and language 154–159
as language 131 , 135 , 158
prehistoric 155
as by-product of mimesis 141
Representationalism in 258material culture; pictorial images
“Art and Cognitive Evolution” (Donald) 140 , 142
Artificial Intelligence (ai) 67 , 244 , 252 , 272 , 280 , 294 , 300 , 304 , 306 , 313 , 329gofai
Ascaris worm 118
Ashby, Ross 72 , 334
Atlan, Henri
views of
on self-organization 83–84
on Spinoza 254–255 , 276–277
mention of 76 , 85 , 351
Atran, Scott 319
St Augustine 208
Auschwitz 194
Austin, J.L. 14
Australian Aborigines 157 , 163
autism 306 , 319–320
autocatalysis 31 , 32 , 33 , 36 , 37 , 57 , 82
automatons 272 , 295 , 303 , 307computers
autopoiesis theory 33 , 57 , 75 , 237
Axial Age 160–161
Baars, Bernard 245
Bacon, Roger 259
Baldwin, Mark 143
Baldwinian evolution 143
Bargh, John 178–179 , 180 , 181–182
Barkow, Jerome 306 , 319
Barlow, H.B. 252
Baron-Cohen, Simon 306 , 319
Bar-Yosef, Ofer 162
Bateson, Gregory 45 , 298
Beeckman, Isaac 93 , 259
bees 108–110 , 114 , 116–117 , 124
behaviour
communicative 109 , 175
and consciousness 174
and mind-body relation 173–175
observation of 172play/playing
Behaviourism
and Cartesianism 264
and Cognitivism 300
end of 301 , 322
views of, on animal/human minds 45 , 106 , 114–115
Bélanger, Roland 86
Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs) 298
Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction 97
Bereitschaftpotential (expectancy wave) 290
Bergson, Henri 255
Berkeley, George 264 , 265
Bernard, Claude 272
Bertalanffy, Ludwig von 72
Beyond Modularity (Karmiloff-Smith) 319
Bible 58 , 153
Big Bang 19–20 , 27 , 48 , 51
biology
in general 9 , 10
causation in 285
Gould on 35
and phenomenology 56
and philosophy 70autopoiesis theory
birds 124 , 138 , 177parrots; ravens
Bitbol, Mitchel 250
Bletchley Park (UK) 293
blindsight 178
Boden, Margaret
criticism of, on Edelman 252 , 325
views of
on brain research 196–197
on computer modelling 197–198
on Fodor 318
on frame problem 329–330
on McCulloch 296
on opposition to Cognitivism 309 , 337 , 338
on perception 134
on self-organization 89
on unconsciousness 136–137
mention of 6–7 , 15 , 83 , 293 , 334 , 351Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science
body
and brains. see brain-body systems
and human minds 4–5 , 115
views on
of Descartes 3 , 4 , 59 , 272
of Husserl 338–339
of Merleau-Ponty 339–340
of Thompson 56–57 , 339–341body-body problem; mind-body relation
body-body problem 56 , 339 , 340
Bogdanov, Alexander 72
Bohr, Niels 10 , 22 , 30 , 93
Bonellia (fish species) 64
bonobos 125
Boolean networks 82
bottom-up causation. see upward causation
Boulding, Kenneth 72
Boyle, Robert 266
Boyle’s law 94
Brain Initiative 189
brain research. see neuroscience/neurology
brain systems
and Aristotelian concept of souls 256
hierarchical nesting of 58 , 119–120 , 122 , 130 , 185 , 191–193 , 238
kinds of
one dimensional (lower animals). see brain-body systems
two dimensional (higher animals). see mind/brain systems
three dimensional (humans). see mind/brain systems
brain-body systems 115–117 , 119 , 193 , 238mind/brain systems
Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy (Churchland) 112–113
Brenner, Sydney 117
Brentano, Franz 268
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire (Edelman) 37 , 246 , 252 , 322 , 323 , 335–336
Broad, C.D. 228
Broadbent, Donald 131
“broken symmetry” theory 96
Brooks, Rodney 310
Bruner, Jerome
lass of. see lass
views of
on language acquisition 316–317
and mit-Mind 307–308
on perceptual unconsciousness 136 , 182 , 290
on Tolman 114
mention of 131 , 336 , 351
Bruno, Giordano 227
Buchdahl, Gerd 265 , 266–267
Buddhism 108
Bush, Vannevar 293–294
butterfly effect 68 , 77
C. elegans 117–118
Cal Tech 307
Calvin, Jean 4
Campbell, Donald 12 , 228
Cannon, Walter 272
cardinal qualities
in general 202–203 , 204–206
evolutionary origins of 209
and mentally impairments 208–209Ego; free will; rationality/reason; self-consciousness
Carnap, Rudolf 14
Carnegie Mellon University 294
Cartesian Linguistics (Chomsky) 273
Cartesian Materialism 252 , 271 , 291 , 292 , 314 , 326 , 345 , 347
Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology (Husserl) 268 , 269
Cartesianism
and Behaviourism 264
and Chomsky 264 , 273–274
and Husserl 268–269
and psychology 263Cartesian Materialism; Descartes, René; Dualism
cas (complex adaptive systems) 78–79
Cassini spacecraft 34
cat paradox 48–49
Catastrophe Theory 83 , 87 , 280
categorizations/recategorization 121
Caton, Hiram 261 , 262 , 271
Cauchy, Augustin-Louis 101
causation
in biology 285
and emergence 230 , 233–235 , 285–286
and free will 288
and mind-body relation 247–251 , 278 , 283–284
views on
of Bitbol 250
of Thompson 250
and water 234downward causation; upward causation
Cauvin, Jacques 163
cave paintings 155
Cavell, Stanley 14
Centre de Recherche en Épistemologie Appliquée (créa) 85 , 337
Centre of Cognitive Studies at Harvard 307
“Challenge to Cognitive Science: The Cultural Approach” (Erneling) 263
Chalmers, David 56 , 229–230
chance, in origins of life 30–31
Changeux, Jean-Pierre 247
chaoplexity 76–77 , 80 , 83 , 337
Chaos Theory 68 , 76–77 , 80 , 83 , 87
chemistry 10 , 11 , 70
chess 112 , 306 , 313 , 328 , 329
Childe, V. Gordon 163
children
development of 154 , 217–218
learning by 203–204
unconsciousness in 176
chimpanzees
artistic talents of 140
being-in-the-world of 341
and Ego 210
language acquisition by 149 , 153
minds of 46 , 107
perception of 125
rationality of 209
self-consciousness of 122–123
and symbolic reference 147–148
China 160 , 161 , 331
Chinese language 331
Chomsky, Noam
and Cartesianism 264 , 273–274
criticism on
of Deacon 42 , 320
of Edelman 324
views of
on language 40 , 43 , 150 , 153 , 190 , 217 , 273–275 , 300–303 , 316–317
on language learning 316–317
on modularity of mind 190 , 303–304 , 319
mention of 15 , 41 , 204 , 263 , 272 , 316 , 343 , 348
Christianity 153
Churchland, Patricia 112–113
Classical mechanics 48
Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel 101
cognitive maps 109 , 116
“Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men” (Tolman) 114
“The Cognitive Revolution from an Ecological Point of View” (Reed) 300
“Cognitive Systems as Self-Organizing Systems” (Stadler & Kruze) 199–200
Cognitivism
in general 14–15 , 345
ascension of 306
and Behaviourism 300–301
founding of 300
opposition to, Boden on 309 , 337 , 338
views on, of Reed 300–301dematerialization theory; Information Theory; mit-Mind; modularism
Cohen, Jack
views of
on Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions 97
on derivability of higher phenomena 63
on general theory of emergence 91
on genetic codes 74–75 , 236–237
on hierarchies of emergence 98
on Schröder's cat paradox 48–49
mention of 351
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 139
The Collapse of Chaos (Cohen & Stewart) 48–49 , 63–64 , 74 , 97–101
collective memory 166
colours 51 , 175 , 177
The Coming of the Golden Age (Stent) 9
communication
of bees 109
language and art as means of 158
between mother and child 203–204
communicative behaviour 109 , 175
“Compensatory, Automaticity: Unconscious Volition is not an Oxymoron” (Glasser & Kihlstrom) 178–179
complex adaptive systems (cas) 78–79
complex systems 57 , 77 , 82 , 86–88 , 90 , 201–202
complexity
and adaptation 81
definitions of 76 , 98
resolvability of 67
to simplicity 60–61
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Waldrop) 78–79
Complexity Theory 76
complicity 98
compulsions 210 , 218 , 219 , 222 , 288
Computational Physics (Potter) 95
computers
in general 3
and ab initio methods 71
abilities of 313 , 328–332
building of 296
and Cognitivism 86
and equations 76–77
and frame problem 329–330
human brains as 313–316 , 323 , 327–334
and hydrodynamics 95
and information storage 166
invention of 327
language translations by 331
reliance on 313–314Artificial Intelligence; automatons; modelling; Turing Machine
conceptual discrimination 121
condensed matter
in general 44
emergence of 50 , 51 , 52 , 92
Connectionism 196–197 , 295 , 304 , 306–307 , 334
consciousness
animal vs. human 213
in animals 137 , 176 , 209 , 213 , 216
and behaviour 174
and brains 171–172 , 184 , 216
definitions of 54
as hard problem 56 , 229–230
higher order 121–122
as illusory 180–182
and learning 179 , 183–184
necessity vs. nonnecessity of 179–180
and neural firing 194 , 246 , 248
and play 3
primary 120–122 , 213
as qualia 229–230
as structure 173–174
theories on 245
and unconsciousness 136–137 , 176–179 , 183–184 , 289
views on
of Dennett 179–180
of Donald 179 , 205–206 , 213 , 215–216
of Edelman 120–122 , 184 , 213 , 289
of Edelman & Tonino 184 , 289
of Freud 171self-consciousness
“Consciousness and the Freedom to Act” (Donald) 205–206
“Contemplative Neuroscience as an Approach to Volitional Consciousness” (Thompson) 250
Copenhagen interpretation 30
copy theory 261
Cornell University 196 , 295 , 304
Cosmides, Leda 306 , 319
cosmology
crisis in 29–30
as historical science 30–31
and philosophy 22–23 , 26
untestability of 28
Craft, Kate 34
Craig, Kenneth 297
créa (Centre de Recherche en Épistemologie Appliquée) 85 , 337
creativity 2 , 107 , 139 , 174 , 188
Crick, Francis H.C.
criticism of, on Edelman 120 , 252
views of
on Ego 215
on emergence of mind 239
on free will 182–183
mention of 9 , 10 , 11 , 74 , 241 , 245 , 247 , 340
Critique of Judgement (Kant) 139
Crutchfield, James 177
culture
episodic 141 , 147 , 149 , 154–155 , 167 , 192–193
globality of 350–351
and language 144–145 , 148–149
mimetic 141 , 145 , 147 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 168 , 193
oral-mythic 141 , 211 , 214
and play 1–2material culture
The Cybernetic Group (Heims) 73 , 297
Cybernetics 14 , 72–76 , 85–86 , 272 , 297 , 298–299 , 345 , 347Information Theory
Damasio, Antonio
views of
on brain-body systems 116
on Ego 216
on emotions 212
on encapsulation principle 191–192
on Hamlet 4
on mind-body relation 281–284
on Spinoza 4–5 , 281–282
mention of 187 , 201 , 202 , 220 , 351
dance language 108–109
Darrigol, Olivier 68 , 93 , 100–101 , 351
Dartmouth Summer School Research Project 300
Darwin, Charles 31 , 46 , 99 , 105 , 107
Dasein 339
data. see information
Davidson 349
Davis, Philip 262
Dawkins, Richard 32 , 33 , 64 , 311
De Anima (Aristotle) 260
Deacon, Terrence
criticism of, on Chomsky 43 , 320
criticism on
of Donald 41
on modularism 320
views of
vs. Donald 40–42 , 140–152
on hierarchies of emergence 53
on human brains 142–143
on language 40–41 , 147 , 149
on language and brain 143–144
on matter 31
mention of 351
decoherence 48
deduction
of higher phenomena from lower
in general 11–12 , 61–63 , 66
impossibility of 67–68 , 69 , 71
process of 11
definitions
of animal minds 110
of complexity 76 , 98
of consciousness 54
of information 98 , 298 , 324
of life 24–25
of machines 327 , 332 , 334
of messages 298
of minds 110nature/essence
Dehaene, Stanislas 245
Delaunay, Charles-Eugène 100–101
Deleuze, Giles 254
dematerialization theory 312 , 314 , 315–316 , 343
Democritus 260 , 271
Dennett, Daniel 14–15 , 179–180 , 311 , 312 , 321
Descartes, René
criticism on 268
influence of 263–264 , 267–268 , 271 , 275
successors of 264–267
views of
adaptation of 264–266
on animal minds 45 , 105–106
appeal to physicists 277
on body as machine 3 , 4 , 59 , 272
on Ego 215
on free will 220 , 221 , 291
on human minds 190
and hydrodynamics 93 , 259
inconsistencies in 266–267
on matter 93 , 259
on mind-body relation 4–5 , 172 , 254 , 257
on objectivity/subjectivity 262
on perception 257–258 , 259–260 , 261
refutation/acceptance of 94
on science 10 , 269
on subject-object opposition 207
on thinking 214
on thought and matter 53–54
on water 233
views on
of Caton 261
of Edelman 252
mention of 227 , 256 , 277 , 332 , 351Dualism; Materialism
Descartes: An Intellectual Biography (Gaukroger) 94 , 259
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Damasio) 116
The Descent of Man (Darwin) 107
Design for a Brain (Ashby) 334
Deus sive Natura 58
Dewey, John 139 , 348
diachronic emergence 194–195 , 235–236 , 237–238 , 283 , 314 , 343 , 347ontogenesis; phylogenesis
DiGirolama, Gregory 181–182
Dirac, Paul 10
“Direct Perception and Indirect Apprehension” (Gibson) 127
Discourse on Method (Descartes) 10
dissipative systems 75 , 97
dna 63–64 , 74–75genetic codes
dogs 107–108 , 125
Donald, Merlin
criticism of
on Deacon 41
on modularism 320–321
views of
on animal minds 110–111 , 113 , 117 , 118–119
on animal sight 124–125
on animals and language 149
on art 145 , 156
on consciousness 179 , 205–206 , 213 , 215–216
vs. Deacon 41–42 , 140–152
on encapsulation principle 192
on expectancy wave 290
on future cognitive evolution 168–169 , 346–347
on homunculi 321–322
on human minds 2 , 169–170 , 186 , 192–193
on language 41–42 , 150–152
on language and culture 144–145 , 148–149
on literacy 155
on literacy and theory 161
on memory 162 , 166–168
on mimesis 141 , 145–146
on pictorial images 140
on self-consciousness 212–213
mention of 204 , 211 , 214 , 317 , 348 , 351
Donne, John 258
downward causation 32 , 52–53 , 195 , 220 , 230 , 233–234 , 245–246 , 249–250 , 285 , 310 , 342
Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature (Weinberg) 65
Dreyfus, Hubert 327–328 , 336 , 338 , 339
Dualism 4 , 53–54 , 106 , 220–221 , 229–230 , 241 , 242–243 , 266 , 281 , 312
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre
views of
on cybernetics 73 , 75–76
on McCulloch 296
on Neumann 333
on self-organization 84–85
on Weiss 335
mention of 292 , 337
dynamical systems theory 196–197
Eccles, John 38 , 243
Eccles-Popper theory 291
ecological optics 128–129 , 132
“Ecological Optics” (Gibson) 129
Edelman, Gerald
criticism of
on Chomsky 324
on Materialism 252
criticism on 251–252
of Boden 252 , 325
of Crick 120 , 252
views of
on consciousness 120–122 , 184 , 213 , 289
on Descartes 252
on homunculi 324
on human brains 323 , 335 , 336
on information processing 324–325
on mind-body relation 245–246 , 247–249 , 251
on mit-Mind 322–324
on nature of thinking 37
on neural group selection 120
on self-consciousness 214
on variations in nervous systems 66
mention of 189 , 201 , 202 , 351
edvac 296
Ego
in general 205 , 214 , 215–216
in animals 209–210
concept of 206 , 207
development of 217–218
evolutionary origins of 214–215 , 216
as free agent 218–220
as illusory 321
role of 216–217
as subject 207
views on
of Crick 215
of Damasio 216
of Descartes 215
of Freud 218
of Idealists 268free will
Eigen, Manfred 32 , 86
Einstein, Albert 10–11 , 22 , 60 , 254
Electronics Laboratory (at mit) 296
Ellis, George 22–23 , 26 , 30 , 51–53 , 351
embedment 330 , 343
Embodied Mind, Meaning and Reason, How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding (Johnson) 348
embodiment 330 , 343
embryology 74 , 76
emergence
in general 13 , 97 , 227–228 , 346
applicability of 231
and causation 230 , 233–235 , 285–286
concept of 12 , 19 , 57
of condensed matter. see condensed matter
essential stages of 20
and evolution 98–99
failure of 228 , 233 , 242–243
falsification of 230–231
in future 168–169 , 245 , 346–347
general theory of
in general 12–13 , 59 , 71–72 , 77–80 , 85–86
criticism on 81–82
mathematical approaches to 86–87
hierarchies of 51–53 , 58 , 91–92 , 98 , 227 , 346
of human minds. see human minds
indissoluble non-identity of 12 , 117 , 228–230 , 231 , 232 , 241 , 246 , 247 , 347
of life. see life
and mind-body relation 231 , 241–242 , 245–246 , 247 , 282–283
of minds. see animal minds; human minds
nature/essence of 25
and reduction 59–72 , 231
re-emergence of 12 , 25 , 50 , 59 , 70–71
scope of 231
and self-organization 84–85 , 86–90
types of
diachronic. see diachronic emergence
strong/weak 233–234
synchronic. see synchronic emergence
“virtual” 194
views on
of Morin 85–86
of Morowitz 19 , 61
as opposite to reductionist views 12 , 49–50 , 61 , 64–65 , 238
of Stewart 91 , 98
and water 232–234origins
Emergence: a Philosophical Account (Humphreys) 77
“The Emergence of Classical from Quantum Theory” (Joos) 48
The Emergence of Everything (Morowitz) 19 , 20 , 61
emergents 228–229 , 230 , 233 , 242 , 243 , 244 , 247 , 278
emergers 228–229 , 230–231 , 233 , 242 , 243 , 244 , 247 , 278
emotions/feelings 190 , 212 , 283–284
Empedocles 260
Empiricism 264–266
encapsulation 58 , 119–120 , 122 , 130 , 185–186 , 191–193
Enceladus 34
The End of Physics (Lindley) 29
The End of Science (Horgan) 9 , 82–83 , 239
The Ends of Philosophy (Redner) 13 , 70
The Ends of Science: An Essay in Scientific Authority (Redner) 9 , 11 , 60
Enlightenment to Enlightenment, Intercritique of Science and Myth (Atlan) 83–84
entailment 249
entropy, negative 299
environments 107 , 115–116 , 127
Epicurus 260 , 271
epiphenomenalism 229–230 , 247–248
episodic culture 141 , 147 , 149 , 154–155 , 167 , 192–193
epistemology 257 , 269
Erneling, Christina 263 , 302
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke) 266
essence. see nature/essence
Ethics (Spinoza) 4–5 , 221–223 , 247 , 276–277 , 279 , 287–288
European Union 189
evolution
in general 99
and emergence 98–99
and free will 206 , 210
and history 162
and human brains/minds 58 , 119–120 , 122 , 130 , 141–144 , 185–186 , 191–193 , 238 , 326–327
and self-consciousness 209
expectancy wave (Bereitschaftpotential) 290
expert systems 306
external memory 157 , 161 , 162 , 165–168
eyes 128–129 , 132vision
face recognition 112 , 177 , 329
falsification
of emergence 230–231
of philosophical theories 241
farmers 162–163
Faust (Goethe) 268
Fechner, Gustav Theodor 254 , 279 , 287
feedback loops 285
Feigenbaum, Mitchell 83
Feigl, Herbert 14
Feynman, Richard 63 , 100
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb 268
figure-ground phenomenon 126–127
“First Draft of a Report on the edvac” (Von Neumann) 296
fishes 108
Fludd, Robert 44 , 59 , 227
Fodor, Jerry 15 , 190 , 217 , 303 , 315 , 317 , 318 , 319
Foerster, Heinz von 75 , 83 , 85 , 297 , 300 , 325
formalism 274–275
forms 54–55 , 130–131
frame problem 329–330
France 83 , 84–85
free agent 218–219
free will
in general 182–183 , 205 , 218–220 , 287–288
acts of 220–221
and causal preconditions 288
concept of
in general 206 , 207–208
metaphysical-theological 220–221 , 290
conscious vs. unconscious 288–289 , 290
evolutionary origins of 206 , 210
views on
of Cartesian Materialists 291
of Crick 182–183
of Descartes 220 , 221 , 291
of Koch 288
of Libet 286–287
of Spinoza 221–223 , 287–288 , 290
freedom 218–219
Frege, Gottlob 13
French Theory 350
Freud, Anna 176 , 218
Freud, Siegmund
views of
on behaviour 174–175
on consciousness 171
on Ego 218
on Naturalistic Phenomenology 172
on unconsciousness 175 , 187
mention of 137 , 220
Frisch, Karl von 108–109
Frith, Chris 134 , 136 , 203–205
Frith, Uta 319
frogs 108 , 113–114 , 117 , 123 , 124
Functionalism 15 , 243 , 315–316
funding
of science
in general 49 , 65
at mit 294–295 , 304 , 306
future, emergence in 168–169 , 245 , 346–347
The Future of the Cognitive Revolution (eds. Johnson & Erneling) 309
Galilei, Galileo 3 , 59 , 258 , 260 , 261 , 262 , 270
Gallistel, Charles 319
Gardner, Howard 15 , 292 , 303
Gassendi, Pierre 259
Gaukroger, Stephen 93–94 , 259–260 , 265 , 272
Gelder, Tim van 337
Gell-Mann, Murray 49–50 , 81
General Systems Theory 72–74
genes
and mental phenomena 284–285
and organisms 63–64 , 236
genetic codes 74–75 , 236–237
geography 8–9
Georgi, Howard 30–31
Gestalt psychology
views of
on monoism 54
on perception 126–127 , 177 , 198–200
on thinking 214
ghosts 240–241
Gibson, Eleanor 127–128
Gibson, James
criticism of, on Köhler 130–131
views of
on aesthetic perception 131
on animal perception 127–130 , 135
on figure-ground phenomenon 126–127
on form perception 130–131
vs. Gregory 137–138
on illusions 133
on perception of affordances 128 , 130
on unmediated perception 132
mention of 98 , 182 , 257 , 348 , 351
Gide, André 288
Glasser, Jack 178–179
global culture 350–351
Global Workspace Theory 245
God 153
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 254 , 268
gofai (Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence) 196–197 , 304 , 306 , 310 , 325 , 329 , 338
Gombrich, Ernst 131 , 135 , 158
Goodall, Jane 107 , 209
Goodman, Nelson 131 , 135 , 158
Goodwin, Brian 90
gorillas 140
Gould, Stephen Jay
views of
on bees 109–110
on origins of language 40
on origins of life 30–31 , 35–36 , 37
mention of 34 , 38 , 57
graphic symbols
use of
by apes 147–148
by hominins 155 , 159
and writing 159–160pictorial images
gratifications 210 , 218
Greece 160 , 161
Green, Brian 29
Gregory, Richard
views of
vs. Gibson 137–138
on human perception 132–133 , 135
on illusions 135–136 , 137
mention of 128 , 131 , 136 , 182
Griffin, Donald 45 , 108–109 , 114
Grossberg, Steven 196 , 306
Guéroult, Martial 254
Gunther 85
Guth, Alan 29
H2O. see water
habitats. see environments
Haeckel, Ernst 38 , 154 , 217
Haken, Hermann 86 , 200
Hamilton, William 100
Hamlet
in general 1–5
ghost of 240
views of
on Man 16 , 19–20 , 44 , 58 , 92 , 105 , 227 , 237 , 271 , 326 , 352
on rationality 211
and will to act 220
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 6 , 352Hamlet
hand signs 125
“hard” sciences 5 , 6–7 , 327 , 336 , 345
harmony, pre-established 279–280
Hartle, James 27
Hartmann, Edward von 175
Harvard University 300 , 307
Haugeland, John 306
Hawking, Stephen 22 , 26–27 , 29
Hayes, Patrick 329–330
Hebb, Donald O. 39 , 118
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 96 , 115 , 139 , 191 , 193 , 255 , 268
Heidegger, Martin 265 , 268 , 339 , 345 , 349
Heims, Steve Joshua 292 , 297
Heinrich, Berndt 110 , 125
Helmholtz, Hermann von 132 , 272
Heraclitus 206
Herder, Johann Gottfried von 254
Hersh, Reuben 262
Hertog, Thomas 27
hierarchies, of emergence 51–53 , 58 , 91–92 , 98 , 227 , 346
history
of hydrodynamics 68 , 93 , 94 , 96 , 100–101
and revolution 162
Hixon Symposium (1948) 333
Hobbes, Thomas 258 , 259 , 292
Hoffmann, Dirk 155
Hoffmann, Geoffrey 32
Holland (country) 259 , 285
Holland, John Henry 78–79 , 243
homeostasis 272
Homeostat robot 334
hominins 46 , 51 , 108 , 138 , 141 , 142 , 145 , 151 , 153–154 , 156 , 168 , 191 , 193
Homo Ludens 1–2
homunculi 136 , 321–322 , 324 , 335
Horace 158
Horgan, John
views of
on chaoplexity 76 , 80–81
on complexities 82–83
on connectionist models 307
on cosmology 28
on Darwinism 31
on end of science 8 , 9 , 12–13 , 100
on Freud 171
on Hawking 29
on Kandel 284
on Kauffman 80
on opposing views on origins of life 37
on something rather than nothing 26
on Wiener 72
on Witten 29
mention of 60 , 337 , 351
How We Became Post-Human (Hayles) 310
Hoyle, Fred 35
Hubel, David 214–215
Huizinga, Johan 1–2 , 139
Human Brain Project 189
human brains
in general 314–315
and bodies 115–117
complexity of 335
as computers 313–316 , 323 , 327–334
and consciousness/unconsciousness 171–172 , 184 , 216
damage to 112–113
as dynamic model 337–338
and environments 115–116
and evolution. see evolution
expansion of 141–143
information assembling of 215
and information processing 315
and language 143–144language(s)
and minds
in general 115–117
of animals 47
emergence of 38–39 , 326
explanatory gap in 88 , 188 , 201 , 282
research of. see under research
size of 118
systems. see brain systems; brain-body systems; mind/brain systems
understanding of 8
views on
of Deacon 142–143
of Edelman 323 , 335 , 336
of Thompson 338
of van Gelder 337–338human minds; humans; neuroscience/neurology
“Human Cognitive Evolution: What We Were, What We Are Becoming” (Donald) 150 , 155 , 161
human minds
and adaptation 141
and animal minds
differences between 190 , 341under evolution
and body 4–5 , 115
and brains
in general 115–117
explanatory gap in 88 , 188 , 201 , 282
and consciousness. see consciousness
defining characteristics of. see cardinal qualities
emergence of
in general 26 , 281
from animal minds 46 , 105 , 145–146
and brains 38–39 , 326
hierarchies of 51 , 53
sciences involved in 237–238
synchronic 238–239
“virtual” 194mind-body relation
and evolution. see evolution
“hard” sciences on 6–7
holistic nature of 111–112 , 328
as machines. see machines
modelling of. see modelling
modularity of. see modularism
nature/essence of
in general 21 , 25
and origins of human mind 40 , 47
origins of. see origins
stages in transformation of
in future 168–169
linguistic-mythic 152 , 155–156
literate-theoric 160–162
and Neolithic Revolution 161–163
oral-mythic 140–141 , 211
as stimulus-response organs 45 , 106
structure of 185 , 343
theories on. see under specific theories
and unconsciousness. see unconsciousness
views on
of Aristotle 342
of Behaviourists 45 , 106 , 114–115
of Cartesian Materialists 312
of Changeux 247
of Descartes 190
of Donald 2 , 169–170 , 186 , 192–193
of Donald vs. Deacon 140–152
of MacLean 186–187
of mysterians 39
of Thompson 111 , 338 , 342–343human brains; humans; language(s); perception
The Human mind’s New Science (Gardner) 15
humans
brains of. see human brains
emotions in 212
environments of 115
mentally impaired 208–209
mimetic culture of 141 , 145 , 147 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 168 , 193
minds of. see human minds
and nature 162–163
perception of. see perception
playing of 3 , 139
prehistoric. see hominins; Neanderthals
as quintessence of dust. see quintessence of dust
self-consciousness in. see under self-consciousness
views on
of Hamlet 19 , 44 , 58 , 105
of Protagoras 105human brains; human minds
Humboldt, Wilhelm von 139
Hume, David 263 , 264 , 265 , 267
Humphreys, Paul 77 , 234 , 235 , 351
hunter gatherers 162–163
Husserl, Edmund
and Cartesianism 268–269
vs. Heidegger 339
phenomenology of 56 , 85 , 115 , 175 , 268
views of
on body 338–339
on science 269 , 270
mention of 172 , 342 , 349
Huygens, Christiaan 266
hydrodynamics
in general 65–66 , 97
and computers 95
and Descartes 93 , 259
history of 68 , 93 , 94 , 96 , 100–101
phenomena covered by 95
Ibn al-Haytham 259
Idealism 267–269 , 276–277 , 347
Ideas and Opinions (Einstein) 11
iit (Integrated Information Theory) 120 , 245
illusions 132–134 , 135–136 , 137 , 138 , 182 , 261 , 262
Impey, Chris 28
In Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography (Bruner) 307 , 308 , 317
Incomplete Nature (Deacon) 42
India 161
indissoluble non-identity 12 , 117 , 228–230 , 231 , 232 , 241 , 246 , 247 , 347
infants. see children
information
of consciousness 171
definitions of 98 , 298 , 324
genetic 74–75
immortality 311
vs. message 73
and negative entropy 299
as physical measure 72–74
processing of 181 , 315 , 324Cognitivism
storage of 166 , 311
views on
of Dawkins 311–312
of Dennett 311 , 312
of Minsky 310 , 312
of Thompson 311
Information Revolution 74
Information Theory 72–76 , 84 , 85–86 , 272 , 297–299 , 323–325genetic codes; Integrated Information Theory
instructions, learning by 203–205 , 209 , 210–211
Integrated Information Theory (iit) 120 , 245
internal memory 158 , 166–168
“ironic science” 28–29
“Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence” (Crutchfield) 177
isomorphism 278 , 280–281 , 287
Israel 161
“Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology” (Ellis) 23
Jainism 108
James, William 283 , 321
Japan 160
Johansson, Gunnar 129
St John 153
Johns Hopkins University 34
Johnson, Mark 14 , 139 , 273–275 , 347 , 348–350 , 351
Jones, Ernest 220
Joos, Erich 48
Jung, Carl 109 , 110
Kagan, Jerome 118 , 285
Kandel, Eric 118 , 238 , 284
Kant, Immanuel 139 , 255 , 263 , 267 , 268 , 276
Kanzi (chimpanzee) 147 , 149 , 210
Karmiloff-Smith, Annette 217 , 319
Katz, Jerrold 303
Kauffman, Stuart
autocatalysis approach of 31 , 32 , 35–36 , 37 , 57 , 82
criticism on 90
views of
on phenomena 80
on self-organization 90
mention of 33
Kepler, Johannes 3 , 227 , 258 , 259
Kihlstrom, John 178–179
Klein, Melanie 176 , 218
knowledge
and perception 133–135
as world model 206
“Knowledge in Perception and Illusion” (Gregory) 132–133
Koch, Christof 120 , 214–215 , 244 , 245 , 288
Koffka, Kurt 126
Köhler, Wolfgang 39 , 125 , 130–131 , 199–200 , 209 , 287
Körper/Leib 56 , 115 , 339 , 340
Krauss, Lawrence 22 , 26
Krohn, Wolfgang 75 , 88–89
Krumhansl, James 65
Kruse, Peter 199–200
Kuhn, Thomas 8 , 68 , 304
Küppers, Bernd-Olaf 88–89
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de 271–272 , 292 , 325
Lacan, Jacques 137 , 176
Lackoff, George 273–275 , 317 , 347 , 348 , 349–350
lad (Language Acquisition Device) 43 , 190 , 204 , 217 , 302–303 , 316–317 , 320
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 45
Langton, Christopher 79–80 , 243
Language Acquisition Device (lad) 43 , 190 , 204 , 217 , 302–303 , 316–317 , 320
Language Acquisition Support System (lass) 204 , 217 , 316–317
Language and Responsibility (Chomsky) 302
The Language of Psycho-Analysis (Laplanche & Pontalis) 218
language(s)
acquisition of
in animals 149 , 153
in humans 43 , 150 , 151 , 153 , 316–317Language Acquisition Device; Language Acquisition Support System
as art 131 , 135 , 158
creativity in 174
as defining human trait 152–153 , 190
evolution of
and art 154–159
and culture 144–145 , 148–149
and material culture 151
and protolanguages 147 , 149–150
as social product 151–152
formalization of 274–275
and human brains 143–144
origins of 35 , 40 , 42
and origins of human mind 41–42
and perception 125–126
and self-consciousness 122–123
translation by computer of 331
and unconsciousness 176
views on
of Aristotle 152–153
of Chomsky 40 , 43 , 150 , 153 , 190 , 217 , 273–274 , 300–303 , 316–317
of Deacon 40–41 , 143–144 , 147 , 149
of Donald 41–42 , 144–145 , 148–149 , 150–152
Laplanche, J. 218
lass (Language Acquisition Support System) 204 , 217 , 316–317
Laughlin, Robert 61–62 , 70–71 , 351
learning
and connections of neurons 118
and consciousness 179 , 183–184
human form of 202–204
by instruction 203–205 , 209 , 210–211
of language 316–317
and rationality 210–211
Leib/Körper 56 , 115 , 339 , 340
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 26 , 276 , 277 , 279–280 , 287
Leroi-Gourhan, André 158–159
Leslie, Alan 319
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 158 , 254
Lettvin, Jerome 113
Lewis, Rhodri 1 , 4
Libchaber, Albert 83
Libet, Benjamin 251 , 286–287 , 291
Licklider, Joseph 294–295 , 304
life
definition of 24–25
emergence of
in general 26 , 236–237
hierarchies of 51 , 53
nature/essence of
in general 21
and origin of life 24 , 33
origins of. see origins
on other planets 34
recreation of 34–35
light 259–260
Lindauer, M. 109
Linde, Andrei 29
Lindley, David 28–29
linear systems 77
Linguistic Positivism 13–14
literacy 155 , 160–161
literature 258
Locke, John 15 , 256 , 257 , 258 , 262 , 264 , 265–266 , 267
“A logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity” (McCulloch & Pitts) 296
The Logical Investigations (Husserl) 269
Logical Positivism 13–14
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (Chomsky) 305
long-term memory 217
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain (Damasio) 4–5 , 191–192 , 212 , 216 , 281 , 283–284
Lorentz, Edward 77
Lorentz, Hendrik 100
Los Alamos (usa) 293
Lovelock, James 33
Lowe, E.J. 165–166
lower animals 114 , 128–129 , 238under specific lower animals
low-level vision 318
Lucretius 260 , 271
Luther, Martin 4
Macherey, Pierre 254
machine translations 301
machines
body as 3 , 4 , 59 , 272
definitions of 327 , 332 , 334
future of 332–333
and minds 112
minds as
in general 6–7 , 14 , 272 , 275 , 292–293 , 312–318 , 326–328
institutes and scientists involved in 293–294
mit-Mind. see mit-Mind
results of 335–336computers; modularism
Mach’s principle 22
MacLean, Paul 120 , 186–187
macroscopic matter 48 , 50
Macy Conferences 73 , 74 , 75 , 297–298 , 298 , 299 , 304
Mainzer, Klaus 86–88 , 201–202
Making up the Mind (Frith) 136
Malcolm, Norman 14
Malebranche, Nicolas 265
mammals 124
Man. see humans
Mandelbrot, Benoit 77 , 83 , 239 , 243
maps 156
Margulis, Lyn 33 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 57
Marr, David 318 , 324 , 329
mass media 350
Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology (mit)
Electronics Laboratory at 296
frog experiments at 113
funding of 294–295 , 304 , 306
Media Lab at 306
mit-Mind development at. see mit-Mind
Rad Lab at 293 , 294 , 298
rle at 294 , 301
scientists from 15 , 72 , 196 , 272 , 293–295
massive modularity 190 , 306 , 319
material culture
and external symbolic storage 164
and language 151art; pictorial images
Materialism 54 , 86 , 115 , 243 , 247 , 271–272 , 347Cartesian Materialism
materialization 343
mathematics 26–27 , 86–87 , 262 , 274
Matheson, Alexandre 254
matter
emergence of
in general 26
hierarchies of 51 , 52 , 92–93condensed matter; solid state matter
nature/essence of 21 , 22 , 23–24 , 27
origins of
in general 7
of macroscopic from microscopic 48 , 50
and origin of universe 30
views on 20–21 , 27–28 , 31 , 49
views on, of Descartes 93 , 259
Maturana, Humberto
autopoiesis theory of 33 , 57 , 75
experiments of, on frogs 113
mention of 76 , 85 , 200
maturation 154 , 217–218
Maxwell, James Clerk 100 , 101
May, Robert 82 , 90
McCarthy, John 294 , 300 , 329–330
McClelland, J.L. 196 , 306
McCulloch, Warren 113 , 296–297
McCulloch-Pitts model 296
McGinn, Colin 241
McRae, Norman 296
mechanical reasoning 311 , 313
The Mechanization of the Mind (Dupuy) 299 , 333
Media Lab (at mit) 306 , 310
memory
concept of 166
conscious access to 166–167
as recategorization 121–122collective memory; external memory; internal memory; short-term memory
men. see humans
Mengele, Josef 194
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
views of
on body 339–340
on forms 54–55
on mind-body relation 172–174
on monoism 54
on motor intentionality 341–342
on tripartite order 53–54 , 55
views on, of Thompson 339–340 , 341
mention of 349
Mersenne, Marin 59 , 227
messages 73 , 298
metaphysics 24 , 264 , 345
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science (Buchdahl) 265 , 267
Method: Toward a Study of Humankind (Morin) 85–86
microscopic matter 48 , 50
Mill, J.S. 12 , 228
Miller, George 300 , 307 , 309 , 336
Miller, Stanley 34 , 36 , 82
Miller-Urey experiments 32
mimesis 141 , 145–146 , 147 , 156mimetic culture
mimetic culture 141 , 145 , 147 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 168 , 193mimesis
“Mind and Matter: Cognitive Archaeology and External Symbolic Storage” (Renfrew) 165
Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science (Boden) 6–7 , 89 , 134 , 136–137 , 197–198 , 294 , 318 , 325 , 334
Mind in Life (Thompson) 56–57 , 111 , 280 , 339–343
mind maps 116
A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness (Donald) 42 , 117 , 118–119 , 144–145 , 148–149 , 212–213 , 215–216
mind-body relation
in general 56
and behaviour 173–175
and causation 247–251 , 278 , 283–284
and complex system approach 201–202
and emergence 231 , 241–242 , 245–246 , 247 , 282–283
and reduction 245 , 283
separability/inseparability of 4–5 , 228–230
views on
of Aristotle 106 , 254 , 255–256 , 342
of Damasio 281–284
of Descartes 4–5 , 172 , 254 , 257
of Edelman 245–246 , 247–249 , 251
of Spinoza 4–5 , 247 , 254 , 276–278 , 281–282
mind/brain systems
in general 115–117 , 119 , 343
research on. see research
three dimensional (human)
evolutionary vestiges in 58 , 119–120 , 122 , 130 , 141–144 , 185–186 , 191–193 , 238
horizontal structure of 185–186
models of 194 , 196–197
three components of 186–187
vs. two dimensional 190–191
vertical structure of 185 , 343
two dimensional (animal) 119 , 121 , 122 , 185 , 187 , 190 , 191–192 , 238brain-body systems
minds
definitions of 110
design features of 117
holistic nature of 110 , 111–112 , 123
impaired 112–113
integrity of 123
and machines 112
philosophy of
in general 254
of Aristotle 255–256
of Descartes 257
of Materialist 271–272
during Renaissance 256
of Spinoza 254–255 , 276–278
reading of 111 , 123animal minds; human minds; perception
The Mind’s New Science (Gardner) 303 , 305
Minsky, Marvin
vs. Rosenblatt 196 , 295 , 304
views of, on information 310 , 312
mention of 15 , 300 , 305 , 316 , 321 , 343Artificial Intelligence; gofai
Misrahi, Robert 254
missing links 39 , 46 , 47 , 99 , 193 , 238
mit (Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology). see Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology
mit-Mind
development of
1936-1955 295–300
1956-1975 300–305
1976-1995 305–309
1996-2015 309–310
influence of 309 , 336 , 345 , 347
and modularity. see modularism
opposition to
in general 336 , 345
of Brunner 307–308
of Edelman 322
of Miller 309
neo-Husserlian 337
of Phenomenologists 336–337Cognitivist Revolution; Cybernetics; homunculi
modelling
by computer
in general 36 , 280
of biological complexity 79–80
complexities of 197–198 , 333–334
criticism on 80 , 81–82
by mechanical means 197
of multistability 200
Modernity 161 , 258
modularism
in general 190 , 303–304 , 316 , 317–319
criticism on
of Deacon 320
of Donald 320–321
of Edelman 322
proliferation of 304 , 319
revisions of 305–306 , 319
views on
of Chomsky 190 , 303–304 , 319
of Fodor 319
molecular biology 117–118
Le Monde de M. Descartes ou la Traité de la Lumière (Descartes) 259
Monoism 54
Moore, G.E. 14
Moravec, Hans 311
“More is Different: Broken Symmetry in Nature and the Hierarchical Structure of Science” (Anderson) 69 , 92 , 96
Moreau, J.F. 254
Morgenstern, Oscar 74
Morin, Edgar 85–86 , 327–328
Morowitz, Harold
views of
on animal minds 45
on emergence 19 , 61
on origins of life 36–37
on primary algorithms 36
on science 20–21
on statistical mechanics 94
mention of 25 , 31
Morris, Richard 112–113
motivation, and unconsciousness 178–179
motor intentionality 341–342
M-theory 29
Müller-Lyer illusion 134
multistability 198 , 200
mysterians 39 , 214
myths 157
Naturalistic Phenomenology 172
Naturalizing Phenomenology movement 337 , 339 , 343
nature, and humans 162–163
nature/essence
of emergence 25
of human mind 21 , 25
of life 21 , 24 , 33
of matter 21 , 22 , 27
Nazism 191 , 194 , 208–209
Neanderthals 144 , 150 , 153 , 155
Near East 160
negative entropy 299
Neisser, Ulrich 336
neo-Darwinism 37
Neolithic Revolution 161–165
nervous system, variability in 66–67
Netherlands 259 , 285
Networks, Parallel Distributed 304
Neumann, John von 74 , 197 , 293 , 296–297 , 333–334
neural code 244
neural Darwinism 325
neural events 66–67 , 246–247
neural group selection (tngs) 120
neural-network models 196
neurology. see neuroscience/neurology
neurons
connections of 118
firing of 194 , 215 , 221 , 246 , 248 , 249 , 291
functions of 238
neuroscience/neurology
of consciousness/unconsciousness 184
function of 188
as hard science 5 , 6
and Mainzer's complex systems approach 87–88
and reduction 66–67
research in. see research
New Lookers 131 , 132 , 133–134 , 136 , 290
New Unconscious psychology movement 178–180 , 188
Newton, Isaac
views of
on empirical validation 10 , 70
on vortix theory 93–94 , 264
mention of 101 , 259 , 266 , 277
“Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of Congressional Testimony” (Weinberg) 232
Nietzsche, Friedrich 268
NK networks 82
“no boundary” proposal 27
noise, order from 75 , 83–84 , 324–325
non-conscious processes 188
non-identity, indissoluble 12 , 117 , 228–230 , 231 , 232 , 241 , 246 , 247 , 347rationality/reason
non-linear systems 77 , 86–87
Nowotny, Helga 75 , 88–89
observations
of behaviour 172
learning by 203
octopi 118–119
Oedipus complex 220
“On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” (Turing) 295
On the Aesthetic Education of Mankind (Schiller) 139
ontogenesis 38 , 154 , 170 , 176 , 193–195 , 217 , 235 , 237 , 314
optics, ecological 128–129 , 132
oral-mythic culture 140 , 141 , 211 , 214
order
from chaos 97
from noise 75 , 83–84 , 324–325
from order 75
organized religion 163
The Origin of Subjectivity, An Essay on the Discourses (Caton) 261
origins
of animal minds 44–45 , 46 , 51 , 98
of human minds
in general 7–8 , 25 , 37
lack of evidence on 39–40
and language 41–42
and mimesis 141 , 145–146
and nature/essence of human mind 40 , 47
opposing views on 2 , 38
role of philosophy in 41
theories on 20–21 , 37 , 46–47
of language 35 , 40 , 42
of life
in general 7
chance and accidents in 30–31
and emergence 26 , 52–53
and nature/essence of life 24 , 33
philosophical approaches to 33–34
theories on 11 , 20–21 , 31–33 , 35–36 , 37
of matter
in general 7
of macroscopic from microscopic 48 , 50
opposing views on 28
and origin of universe 30
theories on 20–21 , 27–28
of universe 20emergence
Origins of the Modern Mind (Donald) 140 , 141 , 145 , 148 , 149 , 192–193
pain 190
paper chemistry 36 , 82
Papert, Seymour 304 , 306
The Paradoxes of Progress (Stent) 9
Parallel Distributed Processing 196
parallelism 129 , 199
Parallelism 279–281
parrots 110
particle physics 48 , 49–50
Partridge, D.A. 334
Pascal, Blaise 220
Pavlov, Ivan 106 , 264 , 272
Peacham, John 259
Penrose, Roger 221
Pepperberg, Irene 110
perception
of animals
in general 123–124
of affordances 127–128
differences between human and 130–135 , 137–138
and environments 127
lower 128–129
directness/indirectness of 132
of humans
in general 124 , 126–127
aesthetic 131 , 135 , 138
of affordances 127–128
alterations in experience of 198–199
of colour 177
conscious vs. unconscious 136–137 , 177–178 , 182 , 289–290
differences between animal and 130–135 , 137–138
of form 130–131
and illusions 132–134 , 261 , 262
and knowledge 133–135
and language 125–126
and self-organization 199–200
mechanization of 329
veridicality of 261 , 262
views on
of Aristotle 257–258 , 259 , 260
of Boden 134
of Descartes 257–258 , 259–260 , 261
of Galileo 262
of Gestaltists 126–127 , 177 , 198–200
of Gibson 127–130 , 128 , 130–131 , 132 , 135
of Gregory 132–133 , 135
of Köhler 198–199
prior to Descartes 260–261
representative 257–258 , 261
perceptual egocentre 321–322
Persia 161
“Personal Experience and Belief” (Lowe) 165–166
Petitot, Jean 270 , 337
Phenomenology
in general 347
of Husserl 56 , 268
of Merleau-Ponty 55–56
naturalization of 57 , 85 , 171–172 , 269–271
Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty) 339
Philipse, Herman 268–269
Philo of Alexandria 153
philosophy
in general 59–60
Greek 161
of mind. see minds
progress in
end of 13 , 14
new start to 14 , 15
reconstruction of 348–349
and science(s)
in general 1–2 , 16 , 69–70
cosmology 22–23 , 26
and emergence 70–71
as handmaiden to 15
physics 22
separation between 70 , 265–266metaphysics; under specific philosphical movements
Philosophy in the Flesh, The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Lackoff & Johnson) 273 , 274
Philosophy of the Unconscious (Hartmann) 175
photoreceptors 128–129
phylogenesis 38 , 154 , 170 , 193–195 , 217 , 235 , 237 , 238 , 314
physics
in general 10
Classical mechanics in 48–49
crisis in 26 , 29–30
and emergence 95
open-endedness of 23
and philosophy 22
Quantum mechanics in 48–49
research in 65–66particle physics; Quantum mechanics; solid state physics
Piaget, Jean 217
pictorial images
seeing of
by apes 140
by humans 131 , 135 , 138 , 140
use of
by apes 140–141
by hominins 140–141graphic symbols
Pines, David 61–62 , 70–71 , 351
Pinker, Steven 150 , 217 , 303 , 316 , 319
Pitts, Walter 113 , 296–297
Planck energy 65
planets, life on other 34
Plato 260
play/playing
in general 139–140 , 174
and consciousness 3
and culture 1–2
Poincaré, Henri 68
Pontalis, J.B. 218
Popper, Karl 243
Positivism 13–14 , 70 , 347 , 350
Posner, Michael 181–182
Post, Emil 274
Postberg, Frank 34
Postman, Leo 131 , 136 , 290
Potter, David 95
Pragmatism 348
Prandtl, Ludwig 96
“Preconditions for the evolution of protolanguage” (Donald) 151
pre-established harmony 279–280
Premack, David 46 , 107 , 149 , 153
Prigogine, Ilya 75–76 , 97 , 200
primary consciousness 120–122 , 213
primates. see apes/primates
Principia Mathematica (Newton) 264
Principia Mathematica (Russel & Whitehead) 13
The Principles of Gestalt Psychology (Koffka) 126
Principles of Philosophy (Descartes) 262
problem solving 313 , 328–329
Protagoras 105
protolanguages 147 , 149–150
psyches
Aristotelian concept of 106 , 255–256 , 342
Freudian concept of 171
psychology
Cognitivism in 300–301
evolutionary 319
influences on
of Cartesianism 263
of mit-Mind 309
of modularity theory 318
reductive view of 10
as soft science 5 , 6
psychophysics 279
Ptolemy, Claudius 227
The Pursuit of Mind (Tallis & Robinson) 188–189
Putnam, Hilary 233 , 315 , 336
Pylyshyn, Zenon 303
Pythagoreans 316
qualia 229–230 , 246 , 249
Quantum mechanics 29–30 , 48–49
Quine, Willard 14
quintessence of dust 16 , 19–20 , 44 , 58 , 92 , 108 , 227 , 237 , 271 , 326 , 346 , 352Hamlet
The Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab) 293 , 294 , 298
Ranke, Leopold von 30
Rapoport, Anatol 72
rationality/reason 205 , 206–207 , 209 , 210–211
rats 108 , 110 , 112–113 , 114 , 119 , 125
ravens 46 , 110 , 119 , 125
reading of minds 111 , 123
recategorization, memory as 121–122
reduction
in general 10–11
and Darwin's theory 99
and emergence 59–72
impossibility of 67–68 , 96
and mind-body relation 245 , 283
and neural events 66–67 , 246–247
preclusion of 52
and progress of science 68–69
reversal of 11–12 , 61–63 , 66 , 67–68 , 69 , 71
views on
of Anderson 69
of Edelman 66–67
of Morowitz 61
as opposite to emergentist views 12 , 49–50 , 61 , 64–65 , 238
reductionism
success of 243–244reduction
Reed, Edward 300–301
Regius, Henricus 264 , 266
Reich, David 150
Reid, Clay 189
religions 163
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness (Edelman) 65 , 120 , 323
Renfrew, Colin 164–165
Representationalism 138 , 258 , 261
research
in neuroscience
in general 238
on animal brains 238
on animal minds 117–118
developments in 6–7 , 188–190 , 196
on emergence of mind 195–196 , 238–240
ethical restriction on 47 , 193–194
modelling in. see modelling
theories in 194 , 196–197
on theoritical linkages 198–201
in physics 65–66
Research Laboratory of Electronics (rle) 294 , 301
responsibilities 218–219
Rey, Johannes de 264
Ricoeur, Paul 348
rle (Research Laboratory of Electronics) 294 , 301
Robinson, Howard 188–189
Rorty, Richard 14 , 349
Rosenblatt, Frank 196 , 295 , 304 , 306
Roth, Gerhard 89
Rothschild, Lynn 283 , 285
Rumelhart, D.E. 196 , 306
Russell, Bertrand 13
Ryle, Gilbert 14 , 241
Saint-Vernant, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de 100
Santa Fe Institute 78–79 , 81 , 243
Sartre, Jean-Paul 54 , 173
Saturn 34
Savage, Leonard 74
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue 149 , 153
scaffolding 203
Schiller, Friedrich 139
Schopenhauer, Arthur 13 , 254 , 268
Schramm, David 30
Schrödinger, Erwin 48–49 , 75
Schwegler, Helmut 89
science fiction 311
science(s)
emergentist views on. see emergence
end of progress in 8–10 , 60 , 69 , 96 , 100 , 242–243
funding of 49 , 65
future of 245
history of 100
and philosophy. see under philosophy
present state of 349–350
reductivist views on. see reduction
rivalry in 304–305
and science fiction 311
views on
of Descartes 10 , 269
of Husserl 269
of Morowitz 20–21“hard” sciences; “soft” sciences; under specific sciences
Scientific Revolution 3 , 59
scientific revolutions theory 8 , 59 , 68 , 88
Searle, John 331 , 336 , 349
sea-snails 118
Second Cybernetic 75–76 , 83 , 85 , 299–300Information Theory
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Turkle) 315–316
self-awareness. see self-consciousness
self-consciousness
in general 205
in animals 122–123 , 209 , 211–212 , 213–214
concept of 206 , 207
and emotions 212
evolutionary origins of 209
in humans 122–123 , 141–142 , 212–214
unity of 215–216
views on
of Donald 141–142
of Edelman 214
self-organization
in general 74 , 75–76 , 83
and emergence 84–85 , 86–90
paradigm of 88–89
and perception 199–200
views on
of Atlan 83–84
of Boden 89
of Dupuy 84–85
“Self-organization, Emergent Properties and the Unity of the World” (Roth & Schwegler) 90
Self-Organization – Portrait of a Scientific Revolution, Sociology of the Sciences Year Book, vol. xiv (Krohn, Küppers & Nowotny) 75 , 88–89
“Self-Programming and Self-Domestication of the Human Species: Are We Approaching a Fourth Transition?” (Donald) 169
Semitic people 160
sensations 190–191
Shakespeare, William 348
shamanistic religions 163
Shannon, Claude 72–73 , 84 , 85 , 297–298 , 300 , 324
short-term memory 215–216
Shotter, John 263
Simonides of Kos 158
simplexity 98
simplicity, complexity to 60–61
situated robotics 309–310
Skinner, J.B. 106 , 264 , 272 , 300
Smith, John Maynard 36 , 82
“Social Cognition” (Frith) 203–205
“soft” sciences 5 , 6 , 336
solid state matter 51 , 98 , 233 , 346
solid state physics 48 , 49 , 50 , 92 , 93 , 97condensed matter physics; hydrodynamics; solid state matter
souls, Aristotelian concept of 255–256
Spain 155
The Sparks of Randomness (Atlan) 277
speaking/speech 154 , 158
Spelke, Elizabeth 306–307 , 318
Sperber, Dan 319
Sperry, Roger 12 , 228 , 245–246
spiders 113
Spinoza, Baruch
views of
on free will 221–223 , 287–288 , 290
on freedom 220
on mind-body relation 4–5 , 247 , 254 , 276–278 , 281–282
views on
of Atlan 254–255 , 276–277
of Damasio 4–5 , 281–282
mention of 351
Spinoza and the Case for Philosophy (Yakira) 276 , 278–279 , 290
spontaneous generation 35–36
Stadler, Michael 199–200
Standard Model 27–28
Stanford Research Institute 294
Stanford University 294
statistical mechanics 94–95
Stent, Gunther 8–9 , 10 , 23–24 , 60 , 100 , 351
Stevin, Simon 93
Stewart, Ian
views of
on Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions 97
on derivability of higher phenomena 63
on emergence 91 , 98
on genetic codes 74–75 , 236–237
on Schröder's cat paradox 48–49
mention of 351
stimulus-response organs 45 , 106
Stoicism 240
storage. see under information; symbolic external storage
Stengers, Isabel 76
string theories 27 , 29–30 , 50 , 65
strong emergence 234
The Structure of Behaviour (Merleau-Ponty) 53–54 , 172–173
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn) 305
subject-object opposition 207 , 262
Supercharged Super Collider 49 , 64–65
superstring theory 29 , 65
Sydenham, Thomas 266
symbolic external storage 164 , 165
symbolic reference 146–148
The Symbolic Species: the Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain (Deacon) 40–41 , 42 , 142–143 , 320
symbols. see graphic symbols
synchronic emergence 194–196 , 235 , 237 , 238–239 , 314 , 343
syntax 301 , 318
systems theory 55
Tallis, Raymond 188–189
teaching 154 , 204–205
technology
in general 3
post-war developments in 6–7 , 14–15
use of term 327
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre 85
Telesio, Bernardino 271
Göbekli Tepe 163
termites 108
testability/untestability 21 , 22 , 28 , 29
theoretical linkages 198–201
Theory of Everything 10 , 62–63 , 65 , 71 , 231
“The Theory of Everything” (Laughlin & Pines) 62 , 70–71
thermodynamics 65–66
Thinking in Complexity: The Complex Dynamics of Matter, Mind and Mankind (Mainzer) 86–88 , 201–202
Thom, René 83 , 87 , 280
Thompson, D'Arcy. see phylogenesis
Thompson, Evan
and Merleau-Ponty's terminology 56
views of
on body 56–57 , 339–341
on causation 250
on Heidegger 339
on human minds 111 , 338 , 342–343
on information 311
on isomorphism 280
on Merleau-Ponty 339–340 , 341
on origins of life 24 , 33
mention of 14 , 25 , 348 , 351
Thomson, William 93
three-body problem 77
tickling 190–191
tngs (neural group selection) 120
Tolman, Edward C. 110 , 114
Tononi, Giulio 120 , 184 , 245 , 246 , 289
Tooby, John 306 , 319
top-down causation. see downward causation
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein) 13 , 158
“Transcendental Idealism” (Philipse) 268–269
Transcendentalism 139
translations 331
Treasures of Prehistoric Art (Leroi-Gourhan) 158–159
tripartite order 53–54 , 55
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare) 227
Turing, Alan 272 , 293 , 295–296 , 330
Turing Machine 293 , 295
Turing Test 293 , 296 , 330–331
Turkle, Sherry 315–316
Tyson, Neil de Grasse 22
ucla (University of California Los Angeles) 307
Uexküll, Johann von 107
Uleman, James 181
Ulysses 227
Umwelt. see environments
unconsciousness
in general 175–176 , 182–183 , 343
in animals 183
and consciousness 136–137 , 176–179 , 183–184 , 289
and creativity 188
and free will 288–289
and language 176
and motivation 178–179
neurology of 184
rationality/irrationality of 187
views on
of Boden 136–137
of Edelman & Tonino 289
of Freud 175 , 187
The Undiscovered Mind (Horgan) 284–285under specific sciences
unfreedom 206
United Kingdom 91 , 293
United States 189
Universal Grammar 43 , 150 , 153 , 274 , 275 , 303 , 316
universe, origin of 20 , 23–24 , 27 , 29
A Universe from Nothing (Krauss) 26
A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination (Edelman & Tononi) 184 , 246
University of Berkeley 336
University of Heidelberg 34
upward causation 32 , 52 , 195 , 230 , 233–234 , 246 , 250 , 285 , 342
Utriusque Cosmi Historia (Fludd) 44 , 227
Varela, Francisco
autopoiesis theory of 33 , 57 , 75
on Husserl 270
mention of 25 , 56 , 76 , 85 , 337 , 338 , 343 , 351
Vaucanson, Jacques de 272
Venter, J. Craig 32
veridicality, of perception 261 , 262
verum-factum thesis 35 , 332 , 333
Vico, Giambattista 35 , 332 , 333
“virtual” emergence 194
vision 124 , 259 , 318eyes; perception
vortices 93–94
Vygotsky, Lev 204 , 217
water
and causation 234
as emergent phenomenon 232–234
general laws of flow of 96
pressure of 93
Watson, James D. 9 , 10 , 11 , 74 , 272
weak emergence 234
Weaver, Warren 297
Wegner, Daniel 180 , 181 , 182
Weinberg, Steven
views of
on complexities 60
on human existence 58
on matter 27–28
on research in physics 65–66
on role of emergence in physics 95
on universe 32
on water 232
Weiss, Paul 74 , 335
Weisskopf, Victor 69 , 96
Weizenbaum, Joseph 336
Wertheimer, Max 126 , 198
“What is Form?” (Gibson) 126
Whitehead, A.N. 13
Wider than the Sky: A Revolutionary View of Consciousness (Edelman) 213–214 , 246
Wiener, Norbert 72–74 , 85 , 293 , 296–297 , 298–299
Wiesel, Torsten 118 , 189
Wiesner, Jerome 294 , 306
“Will Cognitive Revolutions ever Stop” (Bruner) 114
Winograd, Terry 336
Witelo 259
Witten, Edward 29
Wittenberg University 1 , 4
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 13–14 , 158 , 265
Woit, Peter 29–30
“Wooden Iron? Husserlian Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science” (Van Gelder) 337–338
working memory 215–216
The Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl (Darrigol) 100
writing
in general 160–162
and external memory 167–168
and graphic symbols 159–160
Yakira, Elhanan 276 , 278–280 , 290–291
zombies 179 , 229 , 249

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Quintessence of Dust: The Science of Matter and the Philosophy of Mind

Reihe:  Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Value Inquiry Book Series, Band: 345, and Cognitive Science, Band: 345
Cover Quintessence of Dust: The Science of Matter and the Philosophy of Mind
ISBN:
9789004426863
Verleger:
Brill
Print-Publikationsdatum:
14 Mar 2020
  • Fachgebiete
    • Philosophie
      • Philosophie des Geistes
Front Matter
Copyright Page
Prelude
Part 1 The Science of Matter
Chapter 1 The Origin and Nature of Things
Chapter 2 On the Sciences of Emergence
Part 2 The Science of Mind
Chapter 3 Animal Minds
Chapter 4 On the Architectonics of Mind
Part 3 The Philosophy of Mind
Chapter 5 On the Logic of Emergence
Chapter 6 Historical–Philosophical Interlude
Chapter 7 Cartesian Materialism and Its Critics
Postlude
Back Matter
Bibliography
Index

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