Neither Ghost nor Machine : : The Emergence and Nature of Selves /

Neither Ghost nor Machine : : The Emergence and Nature of Selves / / Jeremy Sherman.

If the universe is aimless, how do selves and aims emerge? Why do living beings have aims when inanimate things do not? Current science encourages us to reject the ghost-in-the-machine explanation-that something called spirit, soul, mind, or will was somehow breathed into matter-and instead accept t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Sherman, Jeremy,
MitwirkendeR:
Deacon, Terrence,
TeilnehmendeR:
Deacon, Terrence.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 11 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • I OVERVIEW
  • 1. THE MYSTERY OF PURPOSE
  • 2. THE BIGGEST MYSTERY WE EVER IGNORE
  • 3. DEACON'S SOLUTION IN BRIEF
  • II FRAMING THE MYSTERY
  • 4. TWO SOURCES OF CHANGE
  • 5. SELVES
  • 6. TWO GHOSTS, TWO MACHINES
  • 7. INTERPRETATION
  • 8. AIMS
  • 9. EVOLUTION'S LIMITED LIMITING ROLE
  • III DEAD ENDS, LIVE CLUES
  • 10. THE HISTORY
  • 11. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY'S ELUSIVE SELF
  • 12. INFORMATION ABOUT NOTHING FOR ANYONE
  • 13. THE ENGINEERED GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINES
  • 14. SMALL IS DUBIOUS
  • IV GROUNDING A SOLUTION
  • 15. PROCESSES OF EMERGENT ELIMINATION
  • 16. SECOND LAW IRREGULARITY
  • 17. EMERGENT REGULARIZATION
  • 18. EMERGENT REGULARIZATION VS. EMERGENT SELF-REGENERATION
  • 19. OTHER EMERGENT REGULARIZATION DYNAMICS
  • 20. COUPLED REGULARIZATION PROCESSES
  • V DEACON'S SOLUTION
  • 21. AUTOGENS: SELF-GENERATORS
  • 22. EVOLVED AUTOGENS
  • 23. WHERE IS THE SELF?
  • 24. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SELF-REGENERATION
  • VI THE INTERPRETING SELF
  • 25. CODES, SIGNS, INTERPRETERS
  • 26. KINDS OF SIGNS
  • VII IMPLICATIONS
  • 27. A CONSTRAINT-BASED APPROACH TO EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
  • 28. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FREE WILL DEBATE?
  • 29. MAKING SCIENCE SAFE FOR VALUE
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index

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