TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints6768
UR  - http://cogprints.org/6768/
A1  - Gabora, Dr.  Liane
A1  - Aerts, Dr. Diederik
TI  - A model of the emergence and evolution of integrated worldviews
Y1  - 2009///
N2  - It 
is proposed that the ability of humans to flourish in diverse 
environments and evolve complex cultures reflects the following two 
underlying cognitive transitions. The transition from the 
coarse-grained associative memory of Homo habilis to the 
fine-grained memory of Homo erectus enabled limited 
representational redescription of perceptually similar episodes, 
abstraction, and analytic thought, the last of which is modeled as 
the formation of states and of lattices of properties and contexts 
for concepts. The transition to the modern mind of Homo 
sapiens is proposed to have resulted from onset of the capacity to 
spontaneously and temporarily shift to an associative mode of thought 
conducive to interaction amongst seemingly disparate concepts, 
modeled as the forging of conjunctions resulting in states of 
entanglement. The fruits of associative thought became ingredients 
for analytic thought, and vice versa. The ratio of 
associative pathways to concepts surpassed a percolation threshold 
resulting in the emergence of a self-modifying, integrated internal 
model of the world, or worldview.
AV  - public
KW  -  cognitive 
development
KW  -  concepts
KW  -  context
KW  -  cultural evolution
KW  -  entanglement
KW  -  
evolutionary psychology
KW  -  conceptual integraton
KW  -  quantum interaction
KW  -  
SCOP formalism
KW  -  worldview
ER  -

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