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Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature

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Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature - Godfrey-Smith, Peter
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This book explains the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing links philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of 'externalist' explanations. The author provides a biological approach to the investigation of mind and cognition in nature. In particular he explores the idea that the function of cognition is to enable agents to deal with environmental complexity. The history of the idea in the work of ...

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Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature 1998, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521646246

Trade paperback

Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521451666

Hardcover