Res Cogitans – The Evolution of Thinking

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Izdano u:Biosemiotics vol. 17, no. 2 (Aug 2024), p. 655
Glavni autor: Lindenfors, Patrik
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100 1 |a Lindenfors, Patrik  |u Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden (GRID:grid.469952.5) (ISNI:0000 0004 0468 0031); Stockholm University, Centre for Cultural Evolution, Department of Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden (GRID:grid.10548.38) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 9377); Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (GRID:grid.10548.38) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 9377) 
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520 3 |a A somewhat prominent view in the literature is that language provides opportunity to program the brain with ‘cognitive gadgets’, or ‘virtual machines’. Here, I explore the possibility that thinking itself – internal symbolic responses to stimuli that are either intrinsic or extrinsic, and computational procedures that operate on these internal symbolic representations – is such a software product rather than just an emergent phenomenon of the brain’s hardware being ‘complex enough’, or the brain processing information in a manner that is ‘integrated enough’. I also present a testable hypothesis that would indicate the presence of such a thought-gadget, and briefly overview some evolutionary pre-requisites for its existence. Further, I explore some consequences the existence of such a gadget would entail for our understanding of consciousness. The nature of the gadget is left unspecified as the article is not a blueprint for the thinking gadget, but an argument in favor of its existence. 
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