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The evolution of consciousness
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I will actually talk mostly about evolutionary processes in the brain as we think about what to say next; I'll be happy to answer questions later, however, about how this system we call consciousness itself evolved on the usual evolutionary time scale of the ice ages.Links
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Evolutionary explanation and the hard problem of consciousness.Steven Horst - 1999 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 (1):39-48.
Consciousness and biological evolution.B. I. B. Lindahl - 1997 - Journal of Theoretical Biology 187 (4):613-29.
Multisensory coordination and the evolution of consciousness.Peter G. Grossenbacher - 2001 - In Finding Consciousness in the Brain: A Neurocognitive Approach. John Benjamins. pp. 277-314.
Did consciousness cause the cambrian evolutionary explosion?Stuart R. Hameroff - 1998 - In Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak & Alwyn Scott (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness II: The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates. MIT Press. pp. 2--421.
The evolution and ontogeny of consciousness.Gerhard Roth - 2000 - In Thomas Metzinger (ed.), Neural Correlates of Consciousness. MIT Press.
Evolutionary advantages of inter-subjectivity and self-consciousness through improvements of action programs (TSC 2010).Christophe Menant - manuscript
Coherence, brain evolution, and the unity of consciousness: The evolution of planetary consciousness in the light of brain coherence research.Nitamo Federico Montecucco - 2006 - World Futures 62 (1 & 2):127 – 133.
The liabilities of mobility: A selection pressure for the transition to consciousness in animal evolution.Bjorn H. Merker - 2005 - Consciousness and Cognition 14 (1):89-114.
The evolution of consciousness.Peter Carruthers - 2000 - In Peter Carruthers & A. Chamberlain (eds.), Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 254.
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