Evolving an integral ecology of mind

Cortex. 2005 Oct;41(5):709-25; discussion 731-4. doi: 10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70288-0.

Abstract

A deliberation upon the possibility of generating a comprehensive view of 'mind as a whole' by integrating biology, psychology and sociology, and considering 'Mind' as a dynamical interplay between values existing over many levels and scales of complex systems. This view of mind as a coevolutionary whole is related to similar ecological viewpoints being developed in the fields of artificial life and multi-agent systems. A meta-model of mind is proposed which attempts to integrate the various existing views of mind from a time perspective, and positions the field in a way that we think augurs well for the potential of mind studies based upon modern complex systems science concepts.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Awareness*
  • Biological Evolution
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Cognition / physiology*
  • Consciousness / physiology*
  • Ego*
  • Humans
  • Models, Psychological*