The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

16. The History of Language: Why We Speak

  1. The Origin of Language
  2. Language as a By-product of Symbolization
  3. An Evolutionary Accident
  4. Linguistic Darwinism
  5. Grooming
  6. Co-evolution
  7. Gesturing in the Mind
  8. The Origin of Communication
  9. Language as A Sexual Organ
  10. The Origin of Cellular Communication
  11. Who Invented Language?
  12. What Are Jokes And Why Do We Make Them
  13. Tools
  14. Tools as Intentionality
  15. Tools Created the Brain
  16. Exaptation
  17. The Evolution of Technology
  18. Semiotics: Signs and Messages
  19. Collective Cognition

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Bickerton, Derek & Calvin, William: LINGUA EX MACHINA (MIT Press, 2000)

Bickerton, Derek: LANGUAGE AND SPECIES (Chicago Univ Press, 1992)

Churchland, Paul: ENGINE OF REASON (MIT Press, 1995)

Darwin, Charles: LANGUAGES AND SPECIES (1874)

Deacon, Terrence: THE SYMBOLIC SPECIES (W.W. Norton & C., 1997)

Dennett, Daniel: KINDS OF MINDS (Basic, 1998)

DeWaal, Frans: PRIMATES AND PHILOSOPHERS (Princeton Univ Press, 2006)

Donald, Merlin: ORIGINS OF THE MODERN MIND (Harvard Univ Press, 1991)

Dunbar, Robin:  GROOMING, GOSSIP AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE (Faber and Faber, 1996)

Fetzer, James: COMPUTERS AND COGNITION (Kluwer Academic, 2001)

Gardenfors, Peter: HOW HOMO BECAME SAPIENS (Oxford Univ Press, 2003)

Gregory, Richard: MIND IN SCIENCE (Cambridge Univ Press, 1981)

Hoffmeyer, Jesper: SIGNS OF MEANING IN THE UNIVERSE (Indiana Univ. Press, 1996)

Hjelmslev, Louis: PROLEGOMENA TO A THEORY OF LANGUAGE (1943)

Humphrey, Nicholas: CONSCIOUSNESS REGAINED (Oxford Univ Press, 1983)

Jackendoff, Ray: PATTERNS IN THE MIND (Basic Books, 1994)

Jespersen, Otto: LANGUAGE (1922)

Joseph, Rhawn: NAKED NEURON (Plenum, 1993)

Kurth, Ernst: MUSIKPSYCHOLOGIE (1931)

Langer, Susanne: PHILOSOPHY IN A NEW KEY (1942)

Lieberman, Philip: THE BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE (Harvard Univ Press, 1984)

Miller, Geoffrey: THE MATING MIND (Doubleday, 2000)

Morris, Charles: FOUNDATIONS OF THE THEORY OF SIGNS (University Of Chicago Press, 1938)

Niehoff, Debra: THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE: HOW CELLS COMMUNICATE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE (Joseph Henry Press, 2005)

Oakley, Kenneth: MAN THE TOOL-MAKER (1949)

Peirce, Charles: COLLECTED PAPERS (Harvard Univ Press, 1931)

Prieto, Luis: PRINCIPES DE NOOLOGIE (1964)

Saussure, Ferdinand: COURSE IN GENERAL LINGUISTICS (1916)

Sebeok, Thomas: APPROACHES TO SEMIOTICS (1964)

Taylor, Timothy: THE ARTIFICIAL APE (MacMillan, 2010)

Thom, René: SEMIOPHYSICS (Addison-Wesley, 1990)

Wilson, Frank: THE HAND (Pantheon Books, 1998)