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Topic:
Philosophy of Mind
Consciousness, cognition, subjective experience, mind-body, and thought.
MODE:
When
Stuff Happened
Genus Kenyapithecus: EI Emerges
Emotional intelligence
Lived 16 to 14 Million Years Ago
Prefrontal–limbic integration, Reading others, Modulating reaction
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Early Self-Awareness: Miacis
The Evolutionary Perspective
50 Million Years Ago
Territory memory, where things are, hippocampus development
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Early Complex Sentience Emerges: Dimetrodon
Evolution
295 Million BCE
Complex Brains; Long-Term Memory; Early Complex Sentience.
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Touch: Life Learns to Feel Force
- Touch evolved long before brains.
Evolution
~3.72 Billion Years Ago (after prokaryotes)
Mechanical sensitivity to pressure and membrane stretch
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Laughter Emerges
- Only the great apes laugh!
- Starting about 15 Million Years Ago
Evolution
14.5 Million Years Ago (+/- 2 million)
Limbic vocalization pathways, Breath control
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Plato
Rationalism
Lived from 428 to 347 BCE, aged 80.
98 Generations Ago.
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Genus Dryopithecus: Cultural Transmission Emerges
Evolution
Emerged 13 mya, extinct 9 to 7 mya
Cultural Transmission
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Normalcy, Normal, and Abnormal
Normalcy as experience.
Normal grows from repetition.
A new look.
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