TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tague,Gregory F.
TI  - Art and Adaptability: Consciousness and Cognitive Culture
T2  - Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Series
SN  - 9789004356269
AV  - BF311 .T348 2018 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Art and Adaptability -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Simplified Radiations of Select Primate Species -- Simplified Radiations of Select Hominin Species -- The Long Pleistocene -- Introduction: Setting Boundaries -- Intelligence: Communication and Theory of Mind -- Great Ape Intelligence and Communication -- Symbolic Communication and Consciousness -- Inter-Subjectivity and Evolution -- Great Ape Theory of Mind -- Human Theory of Mind -- Artificial Intelligence -- The Anthropocentric Attitude -- Chapter One Dovetail -- Culture: The Adapted Mind -- Human Network: Scope and Scale -- Symbolic Culture -- Culture and the Adapted Mind -- Gene/Culture Co-Evolution -- Culture and Social Selection -- Culture and Epigenetics -- Mind Sharing -- Chapter Two Dovetail -- Adaptive Functions: Selection  and the Human Psyche -- Adaptation and Natural Selection Defined -- Phenomenal Consciousness -- Adaptive Problems and Questions -- Darwin and Natural Selection -- Darwin and Sexual Selection -- Selection and Tools -- Cognition, Cooperation, and Extended Evolution -- Making Special -- Pleistocene Landscape Preferences -- Can We Define Art? -- Neanderthals and Art -- Cave Painting and Superstition -- Art and Altered States of Consciousness -- Cave Art and Images -- Art and the Human Psyche -- Beauty, the Brain, and the Body -- Chapter Three Dovetail -- Objections: Philosophy and Byproducts -- Philosophy and Art -- Pinker's Cheesecake for the Mind -- An Art Instinct? -- Corrective to Art as Sexual Selection -- Humanology -- Social Selection Over Sexual Selection? -- The Biology of Art as Speculative? -- Two Hypotheses -- Explanatory Dilemma -- Chapter Four Dovetail -- Neurobiology and Cognition: Consciousness  and Representation -- Artistic Behavior and the Social Brain -- The Subject of Aesthetics -- Orienting Creative Cognition; Art, Ambiguity, and Making Meaning -- Representation and Metarepresentation -- Bodily and Cultural Consciousness -- Line or Color? -- Seeing Reality Abstractly -- Knowledge, Beauty, and Neutrality -- From Discontinuity to Essence -- Brain Sight and Insight -- Beauty and Cognitive Emotions -- Ritual Art -- Chapter Five Dovetail -- Conclusion: The Arts and Sciences -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Art and Adaptability argues for a co-evolution of theory of mind and material/art culture
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