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23 settembre
EVOLUTION OF MIND
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A natural history of culture
During the Upper Palaeolithic revolution (about 50,000 to 10,000 years ago) humans developed a new set of skills and activities: cave art, body ornamentation, human burials and other rituals - unmistakable signs of a symbolic intelligence fundamentally like our own. There is evidence, however, that many of the elements of modern human behaviour can be traced even further back in time. The birth and evolution of the modern mind is a mainly archaeological discipline receiving contributions from other sciences including comparative genetics, neurobiology and ethology. It is generally thought that spoken language is a key to understanding this explosive evolution of human culture. The session will cover human intelligence in comparison with that of species closely related to us, the biological bases of human language, the minimum common structure of any language, the origin of magical thought in humans, and the birth and development of moral and religious sensitivity. These topics naturally encompass many classic questions about human nature, free will,sociality, the development of technology, and our future evolution.
Morning
Chair Giulio Giorello
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- Steven Pinker
The Cognitive Niche
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- Marc Hauser
Evolution of a Universal Moral Grammar
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- Michael Gazzaniga
Are Human Brains Unique?
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- Antonio Damasio
The Emotions in Evolution: a Neurobiological Perspective
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- Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Final remarks
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Panel discussion
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Afternoon
Chair Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
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- Tomaso Poggio
Finally: coevolution of neuroscience and AI?
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- Maurizio Martelli
A Computer Science Perspective
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- Philip Pettit
The Evolution of Norms
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- Daniel Dennett
The Domestication of the Wild Memes of Religion
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Panel discussion
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Closing Ceremony
Giovanni Bazoli, Fulvio Conti, Chiara Tonelli, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Umberto Veronesi
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