Social Mind and Mechanical Mind

Quantum Mechanical Coherence , Resonance , and Mind . ∗

Norbert Wiener and J.B.S. Haldane suggested during the early thirties that the profound changes in our conception of matter entailed by quantum theory opens the way for our thoughts, and other experiential or mind-like qualities, to play a role in nature that is causally interactive and effective, rather than purely epiphenomenal, as required by classical mechanics. The mathematical basis of th...

Modeling the Predictive Social Mind.

The social mind is tailored to the problem of predicting the mental states and actions of other people. However, social cognition researchers have only scratched the surface of the predictive social mind. We discuss here a new framework for explaining how people organize social knowledge and use it for social prediction. Specifically, we propose a multilayered framework of social cognition in w...

The Mechanical Mind in History (Introduction)

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Editorial: The social and enactive mind

There is no zero-point of the social relatedness of the individual, no “beginning” or sharp break when he steps into society as if from outside as a being untouched by the network and then begins to link up with other human beings. On the contrary, just as parents are needed to bring a child into the world, just as the mother feeds the child first with her blood and then with nourishment from h...

EVOLUTION AND THE SOCIAL MIND Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition