The Ontogeny of Information

By S. Oyama. 2000

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Foreword by Richard Lewontin Preface to the Second Edition Preface 1.Introduction 2.The Origin and Transmission of Form: The Gene as the Vehicle of Constancy 3.The Problem of Change 4.Variability and Ontogenetic Differentiation 5.Variations on a Theme: Cognitive Metaphors and the Homunculoid Gene 6.The Ghosts in the Ghost-in-the-Machine 7.The Ontogeny of Information 8.Reprise 9.Prospects Afterword to Second Edition Notes References Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Androcentric Reporting of Gender Differences in APA Journals: 1965–2004 (2006, background): “However, Oyama (2000) noted that the cognitive metaphor of “mental programming” presumes a homunculus programmes who programs the mind, and we are likely to call to mind a male, rather than a female, programmer to instantiate our understanding of this metaphor.”
Evolutionary Robotics: A New Scientific Tool for Studying Cognition (2005, background): “This approach seeks to unite Beer’s minimal cognition paradigm [10, 31] with developmental systems approaches to ontogenetic adaptation [32].”
The seven sins of evolutionary psychology (2001, background): “…have only been advanced with the proviso: the developmental processes operating during ontogenesis must always be given their due (TINBERGEN 1972; OYAMA 1985/2000) should be repeated as a mantra whenever one begins to fall into the trap of ascribing any form of genetic determinism to…”
Movement Systems as Dynamical Systems (2003, background): “[93] It has bethe present results, we estimate that ‘mitochondrial’ come a ‘central dogma’ of how people think about heritability is in the range of 30–35%”, seems a the process of evolution.[94] In relation to this arguspeculative interpretation of the data based on correment, it is interesting to ”
Horizons for the Enactive Mind: Values, Social Interaction, and Play (2010, background): “Enactive has often been taken simply as synonymous of active, embodied as synonymous of physical, dynamical as synonymous of changing, and situated as synonymous of exchanging information with the environment, all properties that could be claimed by practically every robot, cognitive model or…”
The emergence of autobiographical memory: a social cultural developmental theory. (2004, background): “Autobiographical memory emerges gradually across the preschool years through processes of social interaction and cognitive developments that are conceived here in terms of dynamic developmental systems theory (Fischer, 2000; Gottlieb, 1997; Oyama, 1985; Thelen & Smith, 1994; van Geert, 1998).”
Nativism in cognitive science (2002, background): “(See Oyama, 1985; Griffiths and Gray, 1992 and Griffiths and Sterelny, 1999.)”
Dynamic Systems Theories (2007, background): “But whether development is viewed as driven by innate structures, environmental input, or a combination of the two, the fundamental premise in the traditional view is that “information can preexist the processes that give rise to it” (Oyama, 1985, p. 13). But if the instructions to develop are in th”