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Author : David C. Geary
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1591471818
"Geary also explores a number of issues that are of interest in modern society, including how general intelligence relates to academic achievement, occupational status, and income."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Martin Wurzinger
Publisher : On the origin of Mind
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780646480756
"'On the origin of Mind' is a detailed description of how the mind works. It explains the dynamics from the neuronal level upwards to the scale of group behaviour, society and culture."--Publisher's website.
Author : Andrey Vyshedskiy
Publisher : Mobilereference
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1611988888
The origin of the human mind remains one of the greatest mysteries of all times. The last 150 years since Charles Darwin proposed that species evolve under the influence of natural selection have been marked by great discoveries. However, the discussion of the evolution of the human intellect and specific forces that shaped the underlying brain evolution is as vigorous today as it was in Darwin's times. Using his background in neuroscience, the author offers an elegant, parsimonious theory of the evolution of the human mind and suggests experiments that could be done to test, refute, or validate the hypothesis.
Author : Merlin Donald
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674253704
This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.
Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Author : Graham Little
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780995108486
Author : Liz Swan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400754195
The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdiscipline of biosemiotics has so far by and large focused on codes, signs and sign processes in the microworld—a fact that reflects the field’s strong representation in microbiology and embryology. What philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists can contribute to the growing interdiscipline are insights into how the biosemiotic weltanschauung applies to complex organisms like humans where such signs and sign processes constitute human society and culture.
Author : Andrey Vyshedskiy
Publisher : MobileReference.com
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Brain
ISBN : 1607787776
Some of the most time-honored questions in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience center on the uniqueness of the human mind. How do we think? What makes us so different from all the other animals on planet Earth? What was the process that created the human mind? Is this process unique or can it be repeated on other planets? The book On the Origin of the Human Mind attempts to provide an answer to these questions. It is organized into three chapters: Chapter I Uniqueness of the Human Mind introduces the reader to recent research into animal behavior, communication, culture and learning, as well as controlled animal intelligence experiments and offers a new hypothesis of what makes the human mind unique. Chapter II Evolution of the Human Mind combines latest genetics research and archeological discoveries to help readers understand hominid evolution. The author discusses the forces that influenced the development of the hominid intelligence and offers a step-by-step theory that links improvement in visual information processing to speech development and to the types of stone tools manufactured by the hominids.Chapter III The Neurological Basis of Conscious Experience takes the reader on an exciting journey into the neurobiology of the human mind. The author introduces the reader to the structure and function of the brain and then presents recent insights into brain organization derived from cognitive psychology, brain imaging, animal experiments, and the studies of patients with diseases of the brain. The book concludes with a unifying theory of the mind and a discussion of the evolution of the human brain and the uniqueness of the human mind from the neurological perspective. Audience: The book speaks best to readers who want to approach the mind from a scientific perspective. The book is written in easy-to-read engaging style. No previous knowledge in psychology, paleoanthropology, or neuroscience is necessary
Author : Ian Glynn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198031321
Drawing on a dazzlingly wide array of disciplines--physiology, neurology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy--Ian Glynn explains virtually every aspect of the workings of the brain, unlocking the mysteries of the mind. Here are the mechanics of nerve messages; the functioning of sensory receptors; the processes by which the brain sees, tastes, and smells; the seats of language, memory, and emotions. Glynn writes with exceptional clarity and offers telling examples: to help explain vision, for instance, he discusses optical illusions as well as cases of patients who suffer disordered seeing through healthy eyes (such as the loss of the ability to recognize familiar faces). The breadth of Glynn's erudition is astonishing, as he ranges from parallel processing in computers to the specialization of different regions of the brain (illustrated with fascinating instances of the bizarre effects of localized brain damage). He explains the different types of memory (episodic and semantic, as well as short-term and implicit memory), traces the path through the brain of information leading to emotional responses, and engages in a discussion of language that takes in Noam Chomsky and Hawaiian pidgin. Moreover, for every subject Glynn addresses, he offers a thorough-going scientific history. For example, before discussing the evolution of the brain, he provides an account of the theory of evolution itself, from the writing and success of The Origin of Species to recent work on the fossil record, DNA, and RNA. No other single volume has captured the full expanse of our knowledge of consciousness and the brain. A work of unequaled authority and eloquence, An Anatomy of Thought promises to be a new landmark of scientific writing.
Author : Duren James Henderson Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Intellect
ISBN : WISC:89097728406
Author : A. Graham Cairns-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521637554
A lively account of consciousness and the mind.
Author : Charles J. Lumsden,Edward Osborne Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674714466
Argues that a mutual change in genetics and culture brought about the development of human mental capacity
Author : Nicholas Humphrey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0387987193
This book is a tour-de-force on how human consciousness may have evolved. From the "phantom pain" experienced by people who have lost their limbs to the uncanny faculty of "blindsight," Humphrey argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states and that consciousness must have evolved, just like all other mental faculties, over time from our ancestors'bodily responses to pain and pleasure. "Humphrey is one of that growing band of scientists who beat literary folk at their own game"-RICHARD DAWKINS "A wonderful bookbrilliant, unsettling, and beautifully written. Humphrey cuts bravely through the currents of contemporary thinking, opening up new vistas on old problems offering a feast of provocative ideas." -DANIEL DENNETT
Author : George Barton Cutten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Evolution
ISBN : UCAL:B4270028
Author : Ariela Fradkin Anati
Publisher : Karolinum Press, Charles University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art and anthropology
ISBN : 8024626772
"Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind" is a collective monograph which comprises scientific studies written by foremost world experts specialising on evolution of the man, culture and art. Seen from the interdisciplinary perspective, the monograph aspires to describe, analyse and interpret the nascence of artistic creativity and the constitution of the anatomically modern man s mind. It also focuses on the origins of art in the Upper Paleolithic as well as on manifestations of artistic creativity in pre-literary societies and tribal cultures that have preserved until present, e.g. in Southern Africa. The fact that the monograph is a result of works by experts with different specialisations enables us to compare their different approaches to the topic and accentuate the wide array of possible approaches and interpretations of artistic manifestations in a particular historic and cultural context."