Archive for March 28th, 2007

Subjectivity & Emergence

Posted on March 28th, 2007 in Ethics, Subjectivity, Consciousness, Activity theory, Fichte, Hegel, Division of labor, Medicine, Neuroscience.

The Subject of Consciousness by Andy Blunden, May 2006
For Blunden, emergence of consciousness from the brain is an insufficient explanatory approach. Instead, an analytical approach should be centered about the concept of the subject, which in philosophy is also designated as subjectivity. This is both a scientific and an ethical approach.
Blunden distinguishes consciousness, which […]

Just discovering culture

Posted on March 28th, 2007 in Culture, Evolution, Sociobiology.

Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Richerson, Peter J. and Boyd, Robert
University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2005
ISBN 0226712842 (pb)
Reviewed by Giangiacomo Bravo in
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 10, no.1, 2007.
There remains much about evolution that is not yet understood, including the cultural dimension of human evolution.
Richerson and Boyd […]