The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds (Record no. 99852)
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| control field | 978-94-007-6259-6 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9789400762596 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-94-007-6259-6 |
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| Classification number | GE1-350 |
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| Subject category code | PDZ |
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| Subject category code | SCI026000 |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 500 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Roth, Gerhard. |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds |
| Medium | [electronic resource] / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by Gerhard Roth. |
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| -- | Imprint: Springer, |
| -- | 2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | XVII, 320 p. 55 illus., 23 illus. in color. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Mind and Intelligence -- What is evolution?- The mind begins with life -- The language of neurons -- Bacteria, archaea, protozoa: successful life without a nervous system -- The “invertebrates” and their nervous systems -- Invertebrate cognition and intelligence -- The Deuterostomia -- The brains of vertebrates -- Sensory systems – the coupling between brain and environment -- How intelligent are vertebrates?- Do animals have consciousness?- Comparing vertebrate brains -- Are humans unique?- Determinants of the evolution of brains and minds -- Brains and minds. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | On the basis of evolutionary and behavioral biology, neuroscience and anthropology, this book investigates to which extent it is possible to reconstruct the evolution of nervous systems and brains as well as of mental-cognitive abilities, in short “intelligence”, and to which extent we can correlate the one with the other. One central question is, whether or not abilities exist that make humans truly unique, or whether the evolution of the human mind was a gradual process. Exactly which neural features make animals and humans intelligent and creative? Is it absolute or relative brain size or the size of “intelligence centers” inside the brains, the number of nerve cells inside the brain in total or in such “intelligence centers” decisive for the degree of intelligence, of mind and eventually consciousness? Which are the driving forces behind these processes? Here, many different answers exist. For some experts the driving force for brains and minds are the conditions for biological survival: the more complex these conditions, the more effective need to be sense organs, nervous systems and brains, and the stronger is the tendency to an increase in learning abilities, behavioral flexibility and innovation power of animals. This is the ecological intellicence hypothesis. Other authors believe that the true driving force is the challenge from social life of an animal: the more complex the social conditions, the more sophisticated are abilities such as social learning, imitation, empathy, knowledge transfer, consciousness and the development of a theory of mind and meta-cognition. This, again, needs progressive changes inside the brains. This is the social intelligence hypothesis. Again other authors distinguish physical intelligence as a third form of cognitive functions mostly related to tool use, tool fabrication and understanding of the principles of how things work. Finally, some experts believe that the decisive factor in the evolution of brains and minds consisted in an increase in the speed and efficacy of information processing in cognitive brain centers. This is the general intelligence or information processing hypothesis. It is discussed, which of these hypotheses is the most convincing one. At its end, the book deals with the eminent question of whether we can arrive at a naturalistic concept of mind and consciousness. Is it possible to explain mind and intelligence within the framework of the natural science, or do mind and intelligence as found in humans, transcend nature? |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Science (General). |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Artificial intelligence. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Animal behavior. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Evolution (Biology). |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Life sciences. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Humanities. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Consciousness. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Popular Science. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Popular Science in Nature and Environment. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Evolutionary Biology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Behavioural Sciences. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Cognitive Psychology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Interdisciplinary Studies. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Title | Springer eBooks |
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| Display text | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789400762589 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6259-6 |
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