Consciousness evolving / / edited by James H. Fetzer

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, Pa., : John Benjamins Pub., c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xix, 251 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 126
• Soggetto topico: Consciousness; Evolution; Consciousness - Physiological aspects; Evolution (Biology)
• Altri autori: FetzerJames H. <1940->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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).
• Titolo autorizzato: Consciousness evolving
• ISBN: 9786612254888; 9781282254886; 128225488X; 9780585461243; 0585461244; 9789027297907; 9027297908
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974869803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in consciousness research ; ; v. 34.