An Interactivist-Constructivist Approach to Naturalism, Intentionality and Mind
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This paper outlines a positive naturalistic account of the emergence of norms, intentionality and intelligence from the evolutionary elaboration of organisational capacities which are fundamental to biological life forms. Correlatively, it provides a critique of the currently dominant selectionist teleosemantic account of these features. According to the account given here, elementary adaptive interaction capacities, like the pH gradient tracking of amoebae, increase in sophistication and adaptability to more complex and intelligent interactive capacities, such as a cheetah’s hunting ability, and so on, until recognisably human mind-like activity emerges. Intelligence in particular is associated with adaptability achieved through increasing anticipative self-directedness.
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