03928nam 22007454a 450 991097486980332120200520144314.097866122548889781282254886128225488X9780585461243058546124497890272979079027297908(CKB)1000000000001685(SSID)ssj0000128976(PQKBManifestationID)12045498(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128976(PQKBWorkID)10071059(PQKB)11264782(MiAaPQ)EBC622351(Au-PeEL)EBL622351(CaPaEBR)ebr10022330(CaONFJC)MIL225488(OCoLC)705531043(DE-B1597)720810(DE-B1597)9789027297907(EXLCZ)99100000000000168520020107d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrConsciousness evolving /edited by James H. Fetzer1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia, Pa. John Benjamins Pub.c2002xix, 251 p. illAdvances in consciousness research,1381-589X ;v. 34Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9789027251541 9027251541 9781588111081 1588111083 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Consciousness Evolving -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- To Greg Mulhauser -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Turing indistinguishability and the blind watchmaker -- Part 1: Natural consciousness -- Consciousness, adaptation and epiphenomenalism -- The functions of consciousness -- Sensations and grain processes -- Part 2: Special adaptations -- Evolution, consciousness and the language of thought -- Why did evolution engineer consciousness? -- Nothing without mind -- Part 3: Artificial consciousness -- Studying the emergence of grounded representations -- Ago Ergo Sum -- Evolving robot consciousness -- Epilogue -- The future with cloning -- Subject index -- Name index -- Advances In Consciousness Research.A collection of stimulating studies on the past, the present, and the future of consciousness, Consciousness Evolving contributes to understanding some of the most important conceptual problems of our time. The advent of the modern synthesis together with the human genome project affords a platform for considering what it is that makes humans distinctive. Beginning with an essay that accents the nature of the problem within a behavioristic framework and concluding with reflections on the prospects for a form of immortality through serial cloning, the chapters are divided into three sections, which concern how and why consciousness may have evolved, special capacities involving language, creativity, and mentality as candidates for evolved adaptations, and the prospects for artificial evolution though the design of robots with specific forms of consciousness and mind. This volume should appeal to every reader who wants to better understand the human species, including its distinctive properties and its place in nature. (Series A).Advances in consciousness research ;v. 34.ConsciousnessEvolutionConsciousnessPhysiological aspectsEvolution (Biology)Consciousness.Evolution.ConsciousnessPhysiological aspects.Evolution (Biology)126Fetzer James H.1940-45156MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974869803321Consciousness evolving4344098UNINA