A mind so rare: the evolution of human consciousness
Merlin Donald refutes the arguments of certain scientists and philosophers who have dismissed consciousness as a superficial byproduct of evolution, or even an entirely irrelevant factor in human cognition. His thesis presents the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our distinctively huma...
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| Summary: | Merlin Donald refutes the arguments of certain scientists and philosophers who have dismissed consciousness as a superficial byproduct of evolution, or even an entirely irrelevant factor in human cognition. His thesis presents the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our distinctively human modes of awareness. Donald proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of interweaving a super-complex form of matter (the brain) with an invisible symbolic web (culture) to form a "distributed" cognitive network. This hybrid mind allowed humanity as a species to break free of the limitations of the mammalian brain. Marshaling evidence from brain and behavioral studies of humans and animals, Donald explains how an expansion of conscious capacity was the key to this revolutionary development and insightfully projects how the human mind might adapt in the future, as we fall increasingly under the spell of symbolic technology. |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 371 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0393049507 |
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Contents
Prologue xi
1« Consciousness in Evolution 1
Demons and memes 3
Questions of definition 4
Building our own demons 7
How this book is organized 8
2. The Paradox of Consciousness 13
A limited Instrument 14
Minimalist people 16
The ultimate form of deconstruction 19
The tunnel of consciousness 21
The paradox of paradoxes 25
Hardliners 28
Radical presumption 31
Even more radical presumption 35
Dennett s dangerous idea 39
Conclusion 44
3. The Governor of Mental Life 46
The time frame of awareness 47
Confusion over automaticity 57
The clinical view: Consciousness and self-governance 59
An aggressive, Interventionist consciousness: A case history 70
Zasetsky s mirror twins 76
A lkeraiy view 78
Vertical depth and unity: The true reach of metacognition 83
Internalization and solipsistic awareness 87
Changing our model 88
CONTENTS
4. The Consciousness Club 92
The materiality of mind 96
Eliminating the scale problem 99
Vestigial brains, not so vestigial minds 106
Avoiding the scala naturae 113
Defining the domain 117
The Consciousness Club 122
Bringing extra resources to bear 130
Embodiment, egocenters, and homunculi 134
The Executive Suite: Defining the primate zone of
proximal evolution 137
5. Three Levels of Basic Awareness 149
The myth of the isolated mind 149
The great computational divide 153
The dawn of hybrid mind: Access to memory 157
Models of modeis and the tertiary regions 164
Chasing phantoms 168
Level-1 awareness: Selective binding 178
Level-2 awareness: Short-term control 184
Level-3 awareness: Intermediate- and long-term governance 195
Episodic awareness 200
Entertaining a radical possibility 202
6. Condillac s Statue 205
Minds in motion 206
Superplasticity 208
The Third Man: Deep enculturation 211
The much-misunderstood Statue and the birth
of Constructivism 214
Mandlers dictum 227
The extraordinary mind of Helen Keller 232
Contact 239
Outside-Inside 250
7. The First Hybrid Minds on Earth 252
Abandoning solipsism 252
Consciousness and Community of mind 254
Contents
The cukural relevance of a multifocal, multilayered
consciousness 257
The stages of human cukural and cognitive evolution 259
The first transition: Establishing the mimetic framework
of human culture 262
The germ of self-consciousness 269
Kinematic imagination 271
The second transition: The spiraling coevolution of thought
and symbol 274
Piggybacking language on culture 279
Our cerebral boxing match with the cukural matrix 285
The management of idea-laundering schemes 287
Symbolic invention and the growth of the lexicon 290
The Virtual realities of oral-mythic culture 295
Collectivity of mind 298
The Triumph of Consciousness 301
The third transition: The invention of symbolic technologies 305
A Mirror of Consciousness: The external memory field 308
A cerebral Trojan Horse 315
Multilayered cultures, multilayered domains of awareness 320
The essential unity of the conscious hierarchy 322
Coda 324
Notes 327
References 345
Acknowledgments 363
Index 365
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