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1 online resource (223 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Physico-Mathematical Paradigm -- 1.2 The Role of Biology -- 1.3 The Place of Humans in Nature -- 1.4 The Enigmatic Nature of Information -- 1.5 The Symbolic Nature of DNA, Mind and Language -- 1.6 Two General Objectives -- 2 Philosophical Foundations of Science -- 2.1 Origin of Modern Science -- 2.2 Matter, Energy, Space and Time -- 2.3 The Limits of Doing "Physics in a Box" -- 2.4 The Paradox of Quantum Mechanics -- 2.5 Ultimate Constituents of Matter |
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2.6 Nature of Elementary Particles -- 2.7 What Does It Mean to Know? -- 2.8 When Is a Theory Scientific? -- 2.9 Science Advances by Recognizing Its Errors -- 2.10 Concluding Remarks -- 3 The Tree of Life and the Origin of Knowledge -- 3.1 Chemical Components of Life -- 3.2 Main Forms of Unicellular Organisms -- 3.3 Protists -- 3.4 Fungi -- 3.5 Plants -- 3.6 Animals -- 3.7 Evolution of Nervous System -- 3.8 Origin of the Mind -- 3.9 Evolution of Consciousness -- 3.10 Concluding Remarks -- 4 The Evolutionary History of Human Beings -- 4.1 The First Hominids -- 4.2 Emergence of the Genus Homo |
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4.3 The Cosmopolitan Hominid -- 4.4 The Neanderthal Man -- 4.5 Origins of Homo Sapiens -- 4.6 The Exit to Africa of Modern Human Beings -- 4.7 Social Organization of Hominids -- 4.8 The Invention of Language -- 4.9 Concluding Remarks -- 5 Stages of Social Organization -- 5.1 Birth of Agriculture -- 5.2 Origin of the First Cities -- 5.3 The Invention of Calculation and Writing -- 5.4 From City-States to Empires -- 5.5 The Archaic Techniques of Social Control -- 5.6 Industrial and Technological Development -- 5.7 Modern Techniques of Information Dissemination and Control |
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5.8 The Question Concerning Technology -- 5.9 Concluding Remarks -- 6 The Nature of Communication and Information -- 6.1 Entropy and Information -- 6.2 Measuring Information -- 6.3 Two Types of Entropy -- 6.4 Symbols, Codes and Signs -- 6.5 Machines That Simulate Organisms -- 6.6 Exploratory Machines -- 6.7 Machines With Implicit Artificial Intelligence -- 6.8 Machines With Internal Imaginative States -- 6.9 Perspectives of Digital Philosophy -- 6.10 Concluding Remarks -- 7 DNA as a Symbolic Domain of Life -- 7.1 Structure of DNA -- 7.2 Structure of Protein -- 7.3 Transcription of DNA Into RNA |
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7.4 Translation of RNA Into Proteins -- 7.5 Symbolic Nature of the Genetic Code -- 7.6 "Diversity" as the Engine of Evolution -- 7.7 Towards a Philosophy of Organism -- 7.8 Concluding Remarks -- 8 Psyche as a Symbolic Domain of Imagination -- 8.1 Philosophical Conceptions of the Psyche -- 8.2 The Origin of Psychology as a Science -- 8.3 The Cognitive Sciences -- 8.4 Characteristics of Biological Intelligence -- 8.5 See, Imagine and Remember -- 8.6 The Internal Dynamic States -- 8.7 The Theory of Predictive Mind -- 8.8 The Psyche as a Symbolic System -- 8.9 Concluding Remarks |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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9 Language as a Symbolic Domain of Sharing |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000848984 |
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1000848981 |
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