Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
Cognición se estructura de manera análoga a la selección natural.
Thought processes are morphodynamic, generating form and music. Perception selects on forms consistent with stimuli, eliminating inconsistent self-organizing processes. Evolutionary self-organization generates structure at various levels of differentiation. Thought starts undifferentiated and gets refined by selecting relevant aspects. The nervous system's structure is analyzed as predictive coding through sensory selection. Differentiation involves generating and selecting forms. Brain development involves generating generic form then selecting connections. Brains go through micro-evolutionary processes, generating and constraining connections like Darwinian processes. Brains generate complexity by evolving on-the-fly through generating and selecting forms.
