Directory of Culture, Cognition, and Evolution Resources

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• Basic References on the Global Brain / Superorganism

  http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAINREF.html
  Short annotated bibliography and link list related to theories of the global brain. "Society can be viewed as a multicellular organism, with individuals in the role of the cells. The network of communication channels connecting individuals then plays the role of a nervous system for this superorganism, i.e. a "global brain"."

• Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence

  http://www.brainchannels.com/
  Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news.

• Cog Web

  http://cogweb.ucla.edu/
  Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography.

• Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture

  http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/cont/
  A scholarly journal dedicated to the exploration, criticism, and development of René Girard's mimetic model of the relationship between violence and religion in the genesis and maintenance of culture.

• Emanuel Diamant

  http://www.vidia-mant.info/
  Publications on cognition, artificial intelligence, robotics and information processing in the human brain.

• Intelligent Socio-Cognitive Systems: New TOGA Reconceptualization of Socio-Cognitive Engineering

  http://erg4146.casaccia.enea.it/toga-tech.html
  Paper on the engineering of highly complex large aggregates of intelligence-based systems in the real world environment.

• Psychology, Culture, and Evolution

  http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/
  Site has three sections: the first is concerned with the evolution of the human capacity to construct signs; the second deals with Cultural-Historical Psychology; the third concerns theories and arguments about the evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality.

• The Evolution of Ethics: Cybernetic Ethics

  http://www.evolutionaryethics.com/
  "The evolution of ethical systems is described in scientific terms using cybernetics as its logical foundation. A plausible theory of the integration of science and ethics." Online book

• The Pleistocene and the Origins of Human Culture:

  http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/Speed.htm
  Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that the specific mechanism by which humans mastered the Pleistocene is our capacity to evolve adaptations to the variation of Plio-Pleistocene environments via cultural traditions.

• The Thinking Meat Project

  http://www.thinkingmeat.com/
  Essays and weblog entries on various topics regarding human nature.

• Without Miracles: The Evolution, Acquisition, and Use of Language

  http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/g-cziko/wm/11.html
  Chapter from Prof. Gary Cziko's book "Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution."

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