See also:
- Basic References on the Global Brain / Superorganism - - Short annotated bibliography and link list related to theories of the global brain. "Society can be viewed as a multicellular organism, with individuals in the role of the cells. The network of communication channels connecting individuals then plays the role of a nervous system for this superorganism, i.e. a "global brain"..
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- Cog Web - - Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography.
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- Dan Sperber - - Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French.
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- Evolution and Philosophy - - Kent Van Cleave presents his thesis that the pursuit of philosophy is the culmination of an evolutionary process.
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- Evolution in the First Person - - New ideas are the method of evolution of man. How this happens is a social phenomena rooted in evolutionary principles. "Contrary to appearances, the great mythological archetypal themes are about human evolution!.
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- The Evolution of Ethics: Cybernetic Ethics - - "The evolution of ethical systems is described in scientific terms using cybernetics as its logical foundation. A plausible theory of the integration of science and ethics." Online boo.
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- Gesture and language equivalence - - Language and gesture are both motor activities controlled by the cerebral motor programs which generate all bodily activity. The equivalence of word structures and gestures is demonstrated by animations.
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- ICC - - The International Culture & Cognition program is a multidisciplinary virtual institute devoted to exploring the interactions between mind and culture. Online papers and related resources organized by topic.
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- The International Paleopsychology Project - - A multi-disciplinary group of scientists dedicated to mapping out the evolution of complexity, sociality, perception, and mentation from the first 10-32 second of the Big Bang to the present.
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- Motor theory of language - - The motor theory proposes that language evolved as an exaptation from the existing complex brain system for motor control. (This is a Powerpoint presentation - link to a free viewer provided..
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- The Pleistocene and the Origins of Human Culture: - - Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that the specific mechanism by which humans mastered the Pleistocene is our capacity to evolve adaptations to the variation of Plio-Pleistocene environments via cultural traditions.
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- Precis of origins of the modern mind - - The central hypothesis in this paper is that there were three major cognitive transformations by which the modern human mind emerged over several million years: 1) mimetic skill and autocueing, 2) lexical invention, 3) externalization of memory.
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- Psychology, culture, and evolution - - Site has three sections: the first is concerned with the evolution of the human capacity to construct signs; the second deals with Cultural-Historical Psychology; the third concerns theories and arguments about the evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality.
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