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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
640
Utgivningsdatum
2019-03-12
Förlag
MIT Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
98 illus
Illustrationer
98 b&w illus.; 196 Illustrations
Dimensioner
231 x 163 x 46 mm
Vikt
1044 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780262039307

The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul

Learning and the Origins of Consciousness

av Simona Ginsburg, Eva Jablonka
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2019-03-12
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A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness-to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, "the sensitive soul"? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka propose a new theory about the origin of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the transition to basic consciousness. Using a methodology similar to that used by scientists when they identified the transition from non-life to life, Ginsburg and Jablonka suggest a set of criteria, identify a marker for the transition to minimal consciousness, and explore the far-reaching biological, psychological, and philosophical implications. After presenting the historical, neurobiological, and philosophical foundations of their analysis, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose that the evolutionary marker of basic or minimal consciousness is a complex form of associative learning, which they term unlimited associative learning (UAL). UAL enables an organism to ascribe motivational value to a novel, compound, non-reflex-inducing stimulus or action, and use it as the basis for future learning. Associative learning, Ginsburg and Jablonka argue, drove the Cambrian explosion and its massive diversification of organisms. Finally, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose symbolic language as a similar type of marker for the evolutionary transition to human rationality-to Aristotle's "rational soul."
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The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul is a landmark attempt to make progress on the problem of animal consciousness.... The word "ambitious" does not do it justice... The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul is a book to capture the imagination of anyone with an interest in animal consciousness, whatever their disciplinary background. Neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, evolutionary biologists, comparative psychologists, and historians and philosophers of biology will learn a great deal from it. -ACTA BIOTHEORETICA

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Simona Ginsburg is Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences, retired from the Open University of Israel. Eva Jablonka is Professor at Tel-Aviv University. She is the coauthor of Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life and the coeditor of Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology, both published by the MIT Press.

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