A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness

By H. Leigh. 2003

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From born to made: technology, biology and space (2005, background): “In contrast to writing, the new technologies function mainly in the milliseconds of the precognitive domain of perception (Donald 2001; Libet 2004).”
The semiotic hierarchy: life, consciousness, signs and language (2009, unknown): “…of protolanguage and subsequently language (along with the property of semiotic systematicity).7 The proposal is thus that the evolution of “mimetic skills” (Donald 1991, 2001) gave rise to the first true signs in evolution, i.e. the transition from Level 2 to Level 3 in The Semiotic Hierarchy.”
From everyday emotions to aesthetic emotions: towards a unified theory of musical emotions. (2013, background): “(Insert Table 2 about here) Evolutionary order refers to the approximate order in which the seven brain functions may be hypothesized to have appeared during evolution (see Gärdenfors, 2003; Joseph, 2000; see also Donald, 1991, 2001; Reber, 1993; Tulving, 1983).”
The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative: An Integration of Integral Views (2007, unknown): “In addition, I find it encouraging that, in addition to Wilber, László and myself, there are a raft of other contemporary theorists from a variety of disciplines who have begun to research the evolution of consciousness from a more integral perspective (Bamford, 2003; Bocchi & Ceruti, 2002; Christia”
What is it like to be a person who knows nothing? Defining the active intersubjective mind of a newborn human being (2011, background): “Margaret Donaldson in Human Minds (Donaldson, 1992) has a similar idea of the stages of cultural education, and Merlin Donald's theory of how the human mind evolved (Donald, 2001) similarly assumes that a culture of expressive and creative mimesis were necessary for the emergence of language.”
The emergence of autobiographical memory: a social cultural developmental theory. (2004, background): “Donaldson (Eds.), Organization of memory (pp. 382–403). New York: Academic Press. Tulving, E. (1983). Elements of episodic memory. New York: Oxford University Press. Tulving, E. (2001). Proactive and retroactive effects in memory performance: Dissociating recollection and accessibility bias.”
How we think: digital media and contemporary technogenesis (2014, background): “Despite the breadth of Hayles ’ scholarly sweep, I am surprised that she does not address Donald ’ s (2002) work on the evolution of cultural consciousness (only referenced in passing).”
Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in capitalist commodification (2006, background): “In other words, conscious awareness is fragmented and volatile: ‘our intellectual home, the cradle of our humanity, appears to be the most limited part of our mind’ (Donald 2001: 25).”
The co-evolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis (2008, background): “These three characteristics allow linking intersubjectivity quite naturally to bodily mimesis (Donald 1991, 2001; Zlatev 2005, 2007a, 2007b), in a way first suggested by Zlatev, Persson and Gärdenfors (2005a).”
Free will in everyday life: Autobiographical accounts of free and unfree actions (2011, unknown): “As noted above, Dennett (2003) proposed that free will is only worth having (and by extension would only have emerged via natural selection) to the extent that it enables the individual to get what he or she wants.”
Meaning = Life (+ Culture): An outline of a unified biocultural theory of meaning (2001, background): “So, for example, a 'mimetic creature' is not also an 'associational creature' , since while it has inherited the meaning system of the latter, it has subordinated it under a 'mimetic controller' (Donald, 1991, 2001).”