A Mente Material

Ainda não li o artigo/capítulo, mas diante do abstract (ver abaixo) resolvi postá-lo assim mesmo porque parece ser mais uma boa fonte de informações/conjecturas sobre esse assunto, já abordado aqui tantas vezes: a materialidade da mente. Em "One-Click Download" o leitor tem a opção de abrir o texto ou salvá-lo. É só escolher.

The Embodied Mind and the Origins of Human Culture
Mark Turner
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science
In: COGNITION AND CULTURE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE, pp. 13-27, Ana Margarida Abrantes, Peter Hanenberg, eds., Frankfurt & Berlin, 2011

Abstract: The notion of the transcendent disembodied mind has almost disappeared from contemporary cognitive science. But research on the embodied mind faces a central problem: presumably, all mammals have embodied minds, but only cognitively modern human beings have robust culture. An embodied mind is evidently insufficient: A community of embodied minds need not have robust culture. In fact, almost no communities of embodied minds have anything approaching robust culture. How then do we explain the origins and development of culture? Pointing to embodied minds does not point us to an answer. Nor can we look to other species for clues to the origin and nature of culture, given that there are no good animal models for human culture. This article explores an example of rapid cultural innovation during the last many decades, one that is now powerfully influential world-wide. It proposes an explanation for the origin of human culture.