The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
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- Categories:Biological Sciences Popular Science
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:January,2023
- Pages:336
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- Size:152mm×228mm
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Review
“The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning is an important reflection on evolutionary theory, offering a radically new perspective on the transition from biological to cultural evolution as a process involving the emergence of signing as a critical intermediate process. Brilliantly argued, it brings together recent scientific findings about animal behavior with the humanities’ exploration of the sphere of meaning from Hegel via Peirce to Deleuze. After A Million Years of Music and Culture and the Course of Human Evolution, this book is another milestone in establishing an extended concept of evolution.” — Jürgen Renn, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and author of The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene and Manfred Laubichler, Global Futures Professor at Arizona State University
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★ Highly recommended by Jorgen Rehn, a German historian of science and director of the Max Planck Institute for the history of science in Berlin, and Paul Cockmann, an anthropology professor at Yale University, strongly recommend the works!
★ Exploring the fusion and compromise between "biological evolution" and "meaning" from the perspectives of philosophy and biological science, revealing why meaningless behavior is still preserved in the process of biological evolution, keeping the world of life strong in complexity.
★ A groundbreaking description of the origin and location of the significance of the Earth's biosphere. The text is rigorous in concept but innovative in expression, interesting and easy to read, with highly comprehensive and stimulating content, making it another milestone in establishing the concept of extended evolution.
Description
Tomlinson’s map of meaning starts from signs, the fundamental units of reference or aboutness. Where signs are at work they shape meaning-laden lifeways, offering possibilities for distinctive organism/niche interactions and sometimes leading to technology and culture. The emergence of meaning does not, however, monopolize complexity in the living world. Countless organisms generate awe-inspiring behavioral intricacies without meaning. The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning offers a revaluation of both meaning and meaninglessness, uncovering a foundational difference in animal solutions to the hard problem of life.
Author
Gary Tomlinson is Sterling Professor of Music and Humanities at Yale University and the author of books on music, culture, and evolution including A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity.