The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 (10) ◽  
pp. 1324-1324
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Simpatico
2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-427
Author(s):  
Csaba Pléh

Ádám György: A rejtozködo elme. Egy fiziológus széljegyzetei Carpendale, J. I. M. és Müller, U. (eds): Social interaction and the development of knowledge Cloninger, R. C.: Feeling good. The science of well being Dunbar, Robin, Barrett, Louise, Lycett, John: Evolutionary psychology Dunbar, Robin: The human story. A new history of makind's evolution Geary, D. C.: The origin of mind. Evolution of brain, cognition and general intelligence Gedeon Péter, Pál Eszter, Sárkány Mihály, Somlai Péter: Az evolúció elméletei és metaforái a társadalomtudományokban Harré, Rom: Cognitive science: A philosophical introduction Horváth György: Pedagógiai pszichológia Marcus, G.: The birth of the mind. How a tiny number of genes creates the complexities of human thought Solso, R. D.: The psychology of art and the evolution of the conscious brain Wray, A. (ed.): The transition to language


Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-135
Author(s):  
Erin Kidd

Abstract Research in conceptual metaphor and conceptual blending-referred to collectively as “conceptual mapping”-identifies human thought as a process of making connections across fields of meaning. Underlying the theory of conceptual mapping is a particular understanding of the mind as embodied. Over the past few decades, researchers in the cognitive sciences have been “putting brain, body, and world back together again.” The result is a picture of the human being as one who develops in transaction with her environment, and whose highest forms of intelligence and meaning-making are rooted in the body’s movement in the world. Conceptual mapping therefore not only gives us insight into how we think, but also into who we are. This calls for a revolution in theological anthropology. Our spirituality must be understood in light of the fact that we are embodied beings, embedded in our environment, whose identities are both material and discursive. Finally, using the example of white supremacy, I show how this revolution in understanding the human person can be useful for ethical reflection, and in thinking about sin and redemption.


1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-44
Author(s):  
F. Sluyter ◽  
B.A. Ellenbroek

Behavioural genetics is the study of the hereditary influence on behaviour, and can therefore be regarded as the intersection between behavioural sciences and genetics. As with most other fields of research it is difficult to exactly pinpoint when behavioural genetics started. In fact, one might say that the notion behavioural traits can be inherited may have appeared in human thought as early at 8000 BC, when the domestication of the dog began.The scientific era of behavioural genetics is generally considered to start with Charles Darwin. In his famous book On the Origin of Species by Means of natural Selection, or the Preservation of favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, published in 1859 (and sold out the first day), he devoted an entire chapter on instinctive behavioural patterns. Some years later, in his book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, he clearly stated that the difference between the mind of a human being and the mind of an animal ‘is certainly one of degree and not of kind’. Moreover he gave considerable thought that mental powers (and insanity) are heritable aspects.


Philosophy ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 65 (253) ◽  
pp. 261-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. D. Sullivan

Quentin Smith contends that modern science provides enough evidence ‘to justify the belief that the universe began to exist without being caused to do so.’There was a time when such a claim would have been dismissed because it conflicts with a principle absolutely fundamental to all human thought, including science itself. As Thomas Reid expressed the matter:That neither existence, nor any mode of existence, can begin without an efficient cause is a principle that appears very early in the mind of man; and it is so universal, and so firmly rooted in human nature, that the most determined scepticism cannot eradicate it.


2016 ◽  
Vol 371 (1696) ◽  
pp. 20150166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Pyne

For most of human history, fire has been a pervasive presence in human life, and so also in human thought. This essay examines the ways in which fire has functioned intellectually in Western civilization as mythology, as religion, as natural philosophy and as modern science. The great phase change occurred with the development of industrial combustion; fire faded from quotidian life, which also removed it from the world of informing ideas. Beginning with the discovery of oxygen, fire as an organizing concept fragmented into various subdisciplines of natural science and forestry. The Anthropocene, however, may revive the intellectual role of fire as an informing idea or at least a narrative conceit. This article is part of the themed issue ‘The interaction of fire and mankind’.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
I Wayan Wirta

<p>The number of sect (Hindu religious schools) that developed in Bali in the past was feared by various groups would lead to religious disharmony. The formulation of the problem of this research : 1) Why did Samuantiga Temple as a medium of Hindu communication, 2) How did Hindus Use Samuantiga Temple as a medium of communication, and 3) What were the implications of Samuantiga Temple as a medium of Hindu communication. The research objective was to obtain the factors that cause Samuantiga Temple as a Hindu communication media, understand the use of Samuantiga Temple as a Hindu communication media and to obtain the implications of Samuantiga Temple as a Hindu communication media. The theory used attribution, cybernetics, sadharanikaran model and dependency theory. Data collection techniques were observation, in-depth interviews, documentation and library research, while data analysis techniques were: data reduction, display and verification.<br />The results of this dissertation study were as follows : 1) Samuantiga Temple as a Hindu communication media was caused by several factors, including : a) Theological factors namely knowledge and understanding of the divine aspects worshiped at Samuantiga Temple included the concept of worship of Śiva Buddha, Śiva Śiddhanta and Tri Mūrti. b) Socio-ideological factors, namely human thought factors regarding the structure of the community supporting the Samuantiga Temple consisting of Bali Aga/Bali Mula and Bali Apanaga. c) The historical and political factors of the power of the Bedahulu kingdom government, in line with the evolution of the level of progress of human thought in understanding God, d) The geographical and strategic location of Samuantiga Temple, as the center or center of the island of Bali so that it was easily accessible from all directions, e) Factors cultural preservation, namely the efforts of Hindus to maintain and preserve the adhiluhung cultural heritage, as a center for the application of the concept of Tri Mūrti worship in Bali. 2) The use of Samuantiga Temple as a medium of Hindu communication, including: the use of palinggih-palinggih, statues, pratima, site/pralingga Ida Bhatara as a medium of concentration of Hindus. The five gita is a complementary media stimulating the concentration of the mind in worship, while the </p><p>offering/upakara serves as a medium for offerings and purification.3) The implications of Samuantiga Temple as a medium of Hindu communication, included : Implications of strengthening sraddha and devotional services in the form of the strengthening of the Hindu beliefs of the Samuantiga Temple pengempon; the implication of Samuantiga Temple as a center for spiritual education; the implications of regulating the family recruitment strategy, namely how to anticipate household needs in connection with the cost of work in Padudusan and the implications for the security of Pakraman/customary villages and the existence of KahyanganTiga in Bali.<br />The findings of the research in Samuantiga Temple are : the Balinese version of the Hindu Communication Model, namely the process of delivering one's Vedic messages to others (Hindus) through the implementation of ceremonies yajña in the Balinese tradition, accompanied by bhāva and taste elements so that the sahridayata (common understanding) is achieved as the main goal to be achieved in the communication process, so that vertical harmonious relationships (parhyangan, palemahan) and horizontal (pawongan), was abstract, its communicantwas not limited to humans.</p>


2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-212
Author(s):  
Nathan Rein

AbstractGary Lease, a controversial figure in the study of religion, was best known throughout his long career for his uncompromising antipathy towards theologically and phenomenologically-oriented approaches to the field. Lease developed his analytic perspective on religion around a set of broad, global assumptions about human nature, the mind, and society. These assumptions lie at the root of those provocative positions which have come to characterize Lease's work. This paper argues that those assumptions, which center primarily on his understanding of human thought as sharply and inescapably limited by biological, cognitive, and historical constraints, form the basis for a distinctive and robust framework for the study of religion. This framework posits, among other things, a fundamentally agonistic relationship between the religion and the study of religion.


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