Sherman Neither Ghost nor Machine

The Emergence and Nature of Selves
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54599-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Jeremy Sherman distills Terrence Deacon’s breakthrough natural science hypothesis for the emergence of agents and agency, selves and aims in an otherwise aimless universe. The theory cuts a new path through the dualistic spirit vs. mechanism debate, unifying the hard and soft sciences and suggesting new solutions to philosophical mysteries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sherman, Jeremy

Weitere Mitwirkende

Deacon, Terrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Terrence Deacon
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

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy Sherman is a decision theorist researching and writing about choice from the origin of life to everyday living. He teaches college courses across the social sciences and blogs for Psychology Today. He has studied and collaborated with Terrence Deacon for twenty years.

Terrence Deacon is professor of biological anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain (1997) and Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (2011).