Consciousness, crosstalk, and the mereological fallacy: An evolutionary perspective

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 426-453

  Wallace, Rodrick ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed cognition; Exaptation; Global broadcast; Information theory; Rate distortion; Renormalization

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; EXAPTATION; GLOBAL BROADCAST; RATE DISTORTIONS; RENORMALIZATION;

FREE ENERGY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE CODING; INFORMATION THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CROSSTALK;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84870237764     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2012.08.002     Document Type: Review

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