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| 245 | 0 | _aFrom bacteria to Bach and back | |
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_a _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c2018 |
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| 300 | _axviii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | ||
| 500 | _athe evolution of minds | ||
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_apt. I. Turning our world upside down _r1. Introduction-- _rWelcome to the jungle-- _rA bird's-eye view of the journey-- _rThe Cartesian wound-- _rCartesian gravity-- _r2. Before bacteria and Bach-- _rWhy Bach?-- _rHow investigating the prebiotic world is like playing chess-- _r3. On the origin of reasons-- _rThe death or rebirth of teleology?-- _rDifferent senses of 'why'-- _rThe evolution of 'why' : from how come to what for-- _rGo forth and multiply-- _r4. Two strange inversions of reasoning-- _rHow Darwin and Turing broke a spell-- _rOntology and the manifest image-- _rAutomating the elevator-- _rThe intelligent designers of Oak Ridge and GOFAI-- _r5. The evolution of understanding-- _rAnimals desinged to deal with affordances-- _rHigher animals as intentional systems : the emergence of comprehension-- _rComprehension comes in degrees-- _rpt. II. From evolution to intelligent design-- _r6. What is information?-- _rWelcome to the Information Age-- _rHow can we characterize semantic information?-- _rTrade secrets, patents, copyright, and Bird's influence on bebop-- _r7. Darwinian spaces : an interlude-- _rA new tool for thinking about evolution-- _rCultural evolution : inverting a Darwinian space-- _r8. Brains made of brains-- _rTop-down computers and bottom-up brains-- _rCompetition and coalition in the brain-- _rNeurons, mules, and termites-- _rHow do brains pick up affordances?-- _rFeral neurons?-- _r9. The role of words in cultural evolution-- _rThe evolution of words-- _rLooking more closely at words-- _rHow do words reproduce?-- _r10. The meme's-eye point of view-- _rWords and other memes-- _rWhat's good about memes?-- _r11. What's wrong with memes? : objections and replies-- _rMemes don't exist!-- _rMemes are described as 'discrete' and 'faithfully transmitted,' but much in cultural change is neither-- _rMemes, unlike genes, don't have competing alleles at a focus-- _rMemes add nothing to what we already know about culture-- _rThe would-be science of memetics is not predictive-- _rMems can't explain cultural features, while traditional social sciences can-- _rCultural evolution is Lamarckian-- _r12. The origins of language-- _rThe chicken-egg problem-- _rWinding paths to human language-- _r13. The evolution of cultural evolution-- _rDarwinian beginnings-- _rThe free-floating rationales of human communication-- _rUsing our tools to think-- _rThe age of intelligent design-- _rPinker, Wilde, Edison, and Frankenstein-- _rBach as a landmark of intelligent design-- _rThe evolution of the selective environment for human culture-- _rpt. III. Turning our minds inside out-- _r14. Consciousness as an evolved user-illusion-- _rKeeping an open mind about minds-- _rHow do human brains achieve 'global' comprehension using 'local' competencies?-- _rHow did our manifest image become manifest to us?-- _rWhy do we experience thigs the way we do?-- _rHume's strange inversion of reasoning-- _rA red stripe as an intentional object-- _rWhat is Cartesian gravity and why does it persist?-- _r15. The age of post-intelligent design-- _rWhat are the limits of our comprehension?-- _r'Look Ma, no hands!'-- _rThe structure of an intelligent agent-- _rWhat will happen to us?-- _rHome at last-- _rAppendix : the background.-- |
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| 520 | _a'How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explined how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind? In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show, step by step, how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. A crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doiong things not based in genetic instinct. Competition among memes produced thinking tools powerful enough tht our minds don't jsut perceive and react, they create and comprehend. An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and scientists, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain all those curious about how the mind works.'--Publisher's description. | ||
| 590 | _bIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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