WebInfoSearch Web Directory
WebInfoSearch Web Directory
| Basic References on the Global Brain / Superorganism: Short annotated bibliography and link list related to theories of the global brain. "Society can be viewed as a multicellular organism, with individuals in the role of the cells. The network of communication channels connecting individuals then plays the role of a nervous system for this superorganism, i.e. a "global brain"." | |
| Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence: Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news. | |
| Cog Web: Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography. | |
| Cognitive science & literature & composition: Dedicated to exploring the impact of cognitive science upon the research and teaching of literature and composition. | |
| Dan Sperber: Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French. | |
| Evolution and Philosophy: Kent Van Cleave presents his thesis that the pursuit of philosophy is the culmination of an evolutionary process. | |
| Evolution in the First Person: New ideas are the method of evolution of man. How this happens is a social phenomena rooted in evolutionary principles. "Contrary to appearances, the great mythological archetypal themes are about human evolution!" | |
| Gesture and language equivalence: Language and gesture are both motor activities controlled by the cerebral motor programs which generate all bodily activity. The equivalence of word structures and gestures is demonstrated by animations. | |
| ICC: The International Culture & Cognition program is a multidisciplinary virtual institute devoted to exploring the interactions between mind and culture. Online papers and related resources organized by topic. | |
| Language, Neoteny, Heterochrony, and Human Evolution: Extensive collection of quotations on the evolution of language. Part of the Web Library of Excerpts: The Multidisciplinary Implications of Heterochronic Theory. | |
| Motor theory of language: The motor theory proposes that language evolved as an exaptation from the existing complex brain system for motor control. (This is a Powerpoint presentation - link to a free viewer provided.) | |
| Precis of origins of the modern mind: The central hypothesis in this paper is that there were three major cognitive transformations by which the modern human mind emerged over several million years: 1) mimetic skill and autocueing, 2) lexical invention, 3) externalization of memory. | |
| Psychology, culture, and evolution: Site has three sections: the first is concerned with the evolution of the human capacity to construct signs; the second deals with Cultural-Historical Psychology; the third concerns theories and arguments about the evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality. | |
| Sean Madigan's CogSci Research Page: Personal cognitive Science Research Page. Includes bibliographies, links, papers and images. | |
| The Coevolution of Language and Theory of Mind: Online symposium organized by the french Institute for Cognitive Sciences and the European Science Foundation. | |
| The Evolution of Ethics: Cybernetic Ethics: "The evolution of ethical systems is described in scientific terms using cybernetics as its logical foundation. A plausible theory of the integration of science and ethics." Online book | |
| The International Paleopsychology Project: A multi-disciplinary group of scientists dedicated to mapping out the evolution of complexity, sociality, perception, and mentation from the first 10-32 second of the Big Bang to the present. | |
| The Pleistocene and the Origins of Human Culture:: Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that the specific mechanism by which humans mastered the Pleistocene is our capacity to evolve adaptations to the variation of Plio-Pleistocene environments via cultural traditions. | |
| Without Miracles: The Development and Functioning of Thought: Chapter from Prof. Gary Cziko's book "Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution." |
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