Introduction

exploring the origins of mindedness in nature

Liz Swan

1-17

Organic codes and the natural history of mind

Marcello Barbieri

21-52

The descent of humanity

the biological roots of human consciousness, culture and history

53-84

Cybersemiotics

a new foundation for a transdisciplinary theory of consciousness, cognition, meaning and communication

Soren Brier

97-126

The emergence of empathy in the context of cross-species mind reading

John Sarnecki

129-142

The evolution of scenario visualization and the early hominin mind

Robert Arp

143-159

Representation in biological systems

teleofunction, etiology, and structural preservation

Michael Nair-Collins

161-185

Beyond embodiment

from internal representation of action to symbolic processes

Vitor Pereira

187-199

Imitation, skill learning, and conceptual thought

an embodied, developmental approach

Ellen Fridland

203-224

Evolving consciousness

the very idea!

James H. Fetzer

225-242

Mind or mechanism

which came first?

Teed Rockwell

243-258

Origins of the qualitative aspects of consciousness

evolutionary answers to Chalmers' hard problem

Jonathan Y. Tsou

259-269

Neuropragmatism on the origins of conscious minding

Tibor Solymosi

273-287

Not so exceptional

away from chomskian saltationism and towards a naturally gradual account of mindfulness

Andrew Winters, Alex Levine

289-299

Mental organs and the origins of mind

Thomas S. Ray

301-326

Mnemo-psychography

the origin of mind and the problem of biological memory storage

Frank Scalambrino

327-339

Minimal mind

Alexei A. Sharov

343-360

Concept combination and the origins of complex cognition

Liane Gabora, Kirsty Kitto

361-381

The mind of the noble ape in three simulations

Tom Barbalet

383-397

From the natural brain to the artificial mind

Massimo Negrotti

399-409