The human place in nature : evolution, context and choice / John Schooneveldt.
| Author/creator | Schooneveldt, John author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2025. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : rationale and justification -- What is context? -- Privileging properties -- Context mapping -- The evolutionary thinking frame -- The evolution of technology -- The evolution of belief -- Interpretation and sense-making -- The ecology of economics -- Summary and its implications for ethics. |
| Abstract | "This book explores a new approach to understanding the evolution of mind and consciousness by examining the perceptual abilities of animals and the way they experience their world. It offers a science-based bottom-up approach to our own conscious worldview by seeing it through the eyes of others. Emphasis is on the role of context in evolution and the way animals internalize and engage with the contextual properties of their world that are meaningful for them. The core argument is that a context, which is subjective and based of the perceptual capacities, offers new insights into the evolution of mind. Rather than seeing biological evolution in terms of the emergence of mindless forms and cultural evolution as the emergence of disembodied minds, the book seeks to integrate these two perspectives through the rigorous mapping of contexts"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024052065 |
| ISBN | 9781032935959 |
| ISBN | 9781032935942 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1032935944 |
| ISBN | 1032935952 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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