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In:The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain
Michael Fortescue
[Advances in Consciousness Research 94] 2017
► pp. 149–174

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Chapter 11
Abstraction all the way up

Its evolutionary purpose

Published online: 11 April 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.94.c11

Article outline

11.1Structural coupling with the environment: From amoeba to man
11.2Abstraction and consciousness
11.3Problem-solving and World 3 abstraction
11.4Negative entropy as the ultimate ground of abstraction
11.5Conclusion: ‘Abstract₀’
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