Art and Adaptability : Consciousness and Cognitive Culture.

Art and Adaptability : Consciousness and Cognitive Culture.

Art and Adaptability argues for a co-evolution of theory of mind and material/art culture.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tague, Gregory F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2017.
Series:Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Ser.
Subjects:
Consciousness.
Arts > Psychological aspects.
Arts > Psychological aspects
Consciousness
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Art and Adaptability
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Simplified Radiations of Select Primate Species
  • Simplified Radiations of Select Hominin Species
  • The Long Pleistocene
  • Introduction: Setting Boundaries
  • Intelligence: Communication and Theory of Mind
  • Great Ape Intelligence and Communication
  • Symbolic Communication and Consciousness
  • Inter-Subjectivity and Evolution
  • Great Ape Theory of Mind
  • Human Theory of Mind
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • The Anthropocentric Attitude
  • Chapter One Dovetail
  • Culture: The Adapted Mind
  • Human Network: Scope and Scale
  • Symbolic Culture
  • Culture and the Adapted Mind
  • Gene/Culture Co-Evolution
  • Culture and Social Selection
  • Culture and Epigenetics
  • Mind Sharing
  • Chapter Two Dovetail
  • Adaptive Functions: Selection and the Human Psyche
  • Adaptation and Natural Selection Defined
  • Phenomenal Consciousness
  • Adaptive Problems and Questions
  • Darwin and Natural Selection
  • Darwin and Sexual Selection
  • Selection and Tools
  • Cognition, Cooperation, and Extended Evolution
  • Making Special
  • Pleistocene Landscape Preferences
  • Can We Define Art?
  • Neanderthals and Art
  • Cave Painting and Superstition
  • Art and Altered States of Consciousness
  • Cave Art and Images
  • Art and the Human Psyche
  • Beauty, the Brain, and the Body
  • Chapter Three Dovetail
  • Objections: Philosophy and Byproducts
  • Philosophy and Art
  • Pinker's Cheesecake for the Mind
  • An Art Instinct?
  • Corrective to Art as Sexual Selection
  • Humanology
  • Social Selection Over Sexual Selection?
  • The Biology of Art as Speculative?
  • Two Hypotheses
  • Explanatory Dilemma
  • Chapter Four Dovetail
  • Neurobiology and Cognition: Consciousness and Representation
  • Artistic Behavior and the Social Brain
  • The Subject of Aesthetics
  • Orienting Creative Cognition.
  • Art, Ambiguity, and Making Meaning
  • Representation and Metarepresentation
  • Bodily and Cultural Consciousness
  • Line or Color?
  • Seeing Reality Abstractly
  • Knowledge, Beauty, and Neutrality
  • From Discontinuity to Essence
  • Brain Sight and Insight
  • Beauty and Cognitive Emotions
  • Ritual Art
  • Chapter Five Dovetail
  • Conclusion: The Arts and Sciences
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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