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Why Me? - The Sociocultural Evolution of a Self-Reflective Mind (Hardcover)
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Why Me? - The Sociocultural Evolution of a Self-Reflective Mind (Hardcover)
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This book explores the evolution of the mental competence for
self-reflection: why it evolved, under what selection pressures, in
what environments, out of what precursors, and with what mental
resources. Integrating evolutionary, psychological, and
philosophical perspectives, Radu J. Bogdan argues that the
competence for self-reflection, uniquely human and initially
autobiographical, evolved under strong and persistent sociocultural
and political (collaborative and competitive) pressures on the
developing minds of older children and later adults.
Self-reflection originated in a basic propensity of the human brain
to rehearse anticipatively mental states, speech acts, actions, and
states of the world in order to service one's elaborate goal
policies. These goal policies integrate offline representations of
one's own mental states and actions and those of others in order to
handle the challenges of a complex and dynamic sociopolitical and
sociocultural life, calling for an adaptive intramental
self-regulation: that intramental adaptation is self-reflection.
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