The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

22. The History of Consciousness

  1. The Origin of Consciousness
  2. A Linguistic Origin
  3. A Practical Origin
  4. The Bicameral Mind
  5. A Synthesis: For a Darwinian Theory of Consciousness
  6. The Prehistory of Brain
  7. The Prehistory Of Mind
  8. The Origins of Civilization
  9. Co-Evolution Of Language And Consciousness
  10. Mimesis
  11. Cultural Origins
  12. The Three Stages of Brain Evolution
  13. The Evolution of Feelings
  14. How Homo Became Sapiens
  15. Protoconsciousness
  16. The End of the Struggle and the Luxury of Consciousness
  17. A Darwinian History of Consciousness

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books) 

Arbib, Michael: METAPHORICAL BRAIN 2 (Wiley, 1989)

Cairns-Smith, A. G.: EVOLVING THE MIND (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

Cauvin, Jacques: THE BIRTH OF THE GODS AND THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE (Cambridge Univ Press, 2000)

Deacon, Terrence: THE SYMBOLIC SPECIES (W.W. Norton & C., 1997)

Donald, Merlin: ORIGINS OF THE MODERN MIND (Harvard Univ Press, 1991)

Feinberg, Todd and Mallatt, Jon: "The Ancient Origins of Consciousness" (2016)

Gardenfors, Peter: HOW HOMO BECAME SAPIENS (Oxford Univ Press, 2003)

Ginsburg, Simona & Jablonka, Eva: : "The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul" (2019)

Godfrey-Smith, Peter: "Other Minds" (2016)

Hameroff, Stuart: ULTIMATE COMPUTING  (Elsevier Science, 1987)

Humphrey Nicholas: CONSCIOUSNESS REGAINED (Oxford Univ Press, 1983)

Jaynes, Julian: THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND (Houghton Mifflin, 1977)

Jerison, Harry: THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN AND INTELLIGENCE (1973)

Liebenberg, Louis: TRACKING SCIENCE (2013)

MacPhail, Euan:  THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Oxford UnivPress, 1998)

Mead, George Herbert: MIND, SELF AND SOCIETY (Univ of Chicago Press, 1934)

Mithen, Steven: THE PREHISTORY OF THE MIND (Thames and Hudson, 1996)

O'Flaherty, Wendy: KARMA AND REBIRTH IN CLASSICAL INDIA (University of California Press, 1980)

Oakley, Kenneth: MAN THE TOOL-MAKER (1949)

Popper, Karl & Eccles, John: THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN (Springer, 1977)

Popper, Karl: KNOWLEDGE AND THE BODY-MIND PROBLEM (Routledge, 1994)

Schroedinger, Erwin: Mind and Matter (1958)

Snell, Bruno: THE DISCOVERY OF THE MIND (1946)

Tomasello, Michael: THE CULTURAL ORIGINS OF HUMAN COGNITION (Harvard Univ Press, 1999)

Tull, Herman: THE VEDIC ORIGINS OF KARMA (State University of New York, 1989)