Download PDF by Gerhard Roth: The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds

By Gerhard Roth

the most subject of the booklet is a reconstruction of the evolution of apprehensive structures and brains in addition to of mental-cognitive skills, in brief “intelligence” from least difficult organisms to people. It investigates to which volume the 2 are correlated. One critical subject is the alleged strong point of the human mind and human intelligence and brain. it truly is mentioned which neural positive aspects confirm animals and people clever and artistic: Is it absolute or relative mind measurement or the dimensions of “intelligence facilities” contained in the brains, the variety of nerve cells contained in the mind in overall or in such “intelligence facilities” decisive for the measure of intelligence, of brain and at last cognizance? And that are the riding forces in the back of those approaches? ultimately, it really is requested what all this implies for the classical challenge of mind-brain courting and for a naturalistic concept of mind.

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