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The Evolution of Pre-Human Living Systems and Their Programs
Any develo** system may be considered in two ways: physical and informational. In the former, we attempt to understand the physical essence of processes which occur within the system, which change it in time...
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Consciousness, Thinking, Creativity
It is difficult to define consciousness in a few words. One may characterize both physiological and psychological aspects of consciousness in terms of the following factors:
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Conclusion
Everything stated in this book is nothing more than a popular introduction to the study of modeling of the mind. To create this model, we must exert great effort in many diverse directions. I will attempt to i...
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Some General Assumptions of Cybernetics
Cybernetics expresses general regularities in the activity of natural and artificial systems. I will try to present these in brief outline (I consider it necessary to make the reservation that some assumptions...
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Basic Programs of Human Behavior
In this chapter I will try to state the general assumptions which underlie an hypothesis concerning programs of human behavior—concerning the mechanism of human thinking and the mind. Of course, these assumpti...
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Modeling of Mental Functions
A model is a system, a structure or a program of activity which in varying degree reflects another system, a structure, or a program. Modeling is a necessary condition for the generation of information. The br...
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Human Brain Evolution: I. Evolution of Language Circuits
The investigation of the neural basis for human language abilities has principally proceeded in neuropsychological and neurosurgical contexts with the study of brain damaged patients exhibiting aphasia, patien...
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Brain, Mind and Reality: An Evolutionary Approach to Biological Intelligence
Organisms are faced during their lives with an immense variety of problems, ranging from purely physical ones, such as changes in climate or geomorphic disturbances, to organism-specific problems related to fo...
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Evolutionary Biology of Intelligence: The Nature of the Problem
If our topic presents a problem, it is one of the good ones: like working a puzzle with a known solution. Most of us enjoy a tough puzzle, especially when we finally solve it. The challenge of the game of solv...
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The Conceptual Role of Intelligence in Human Sociobiology
In this paper I discuss some of the logical and methodological features of evolutionary explanations of intelligence-based human behavior. Hence, the main thrust of the paper will be theoretical attempting to ...
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An Evolutionary Epistemological Approach to the Evolution of Intelligence
At the end of a lengthy survey of the comparative mental powers of man and other animals, Darwin (1871) concluded that “the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is o...
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The Forebrain as a Playground of Mammalian Evolution
Theories concerning the process of evolution commonly assume that the Neo-Darwinian principles of random mutation and subsequent selection apply to the evolution of brain and behavior as well as to other biolo...
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Language, Intelligence, and Rule-Governed Behavior
One of the odder phenomena of the past thirty years is that Chomsky’s transformational, i. e., “generative” linguistic theory denies the major premises of modern biological thought but nonetheless claims to ha...
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The Evolution of Human Cerebral Asymmetry
Although considerably less extensive and obvious than functional cerebral asymmetries in the human brain (see Bradshaw & Nettleton, 1983), recent research has demonstrated beyond question that the two cerebral...
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Allometric Analysis and Brain Size
My aim in this paper is to demonstrate how quantitative allometric analyses have recently been used to generate and test theories that explain the reasons for differences in brain size among birds and mammals....
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Vertebrate-Invertebrate Comparisons
Given the wider province of this symposium, I should say at once that my concern here is only with (non-human) animals, and not with intelligence in general but only with learning, which students of animal int...
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Contribution of the Genetical and Neural Memory to Animal Intelligence
Mechanisms that adjust the internal “parameters” of organisms to random or temporary changes in the environment can be found at every level of living organization (Plotkin and Odling-Smee 1981). At the most ba...
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Human Brain Evolution: II. Embryology and Brain Allometry
The unusually large size of the human brain with respect to the human body as compared to other mammals is a dominating fact in the study of human evolution. No account of the similarities and differences betw...
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Basic Processes in Human Intelligence
Tests of intelligence are unpopular with Western intellectuals today. Notoriously, the tests appear to discriminate against ‘minorities’ and against ‘the working class’; and women are under-represented in the ...
