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The Things We Do - Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior (Paperback)
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The Things We Do - Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior (Paperback)
Series: The Things We Do
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Cziko shows how the lessons of Bernard and Darwin, updated with the
best of current scientific knowledge, can provide solutions to
certain long-standing theoretical and practical problems in
behavioral science and enable us to develop new methods and topics
for research. The remarkable achievements that modern science has
made in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and engineering
contrast sharply with our limited knowledge of the human mind and
behavior. A major reason for this slow progress, claims Gary Cziko,
is that with few exceptions, behavioral and cognitive scientists
continue to apply a Newtonian-inspired view of animate behavior as
an organism's output determined by environmental input. This
one-way cause-effect approach ignores the important findings of two
major nineteenth-century biologists, French physiologist Claude
Bernard and English naturalist Charles Darwin. Approaching living
organisms as purposeful systems that behave in order to control
their perceptions of the external environment provides a new
perspective for understanding what, why, and how living things,
including humans, do what they do. Cziko examines in particular
perceptual control theory, which has its roots in Bernard's work on
the self-regulating nature of living organisms and in the work of
engineers who developed the field of cybernetics during and after
World War II. He also shows how our evolutionary past together with
Darwinian processes currently occurring within our bodies, such as
the evolution of new brain connections, provide insights into the
immediate and ultimate causes of behavior. Writing in an accessible
style, Cziko shows how the lessons of Bernard and Darwin, updated
with the best of current scientific knowledge, can provide
solutions to certain long-standing theoretical and practical
problems in behavioral science and enable us to develop new methods
and topics for research.
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