社会情境认知的文化演进
The Cultural Evolution of Socially Situated Cognition
摘要:
由于人类认知具有创造性和社会性,知识积累,扩散,并在新的环境中得到应用,产生在群体遗传学中观察到的现象的文化类似物,如适应和漂移。因此,人们普遍认为,文化元素是通过自然选择进化的。然而,自然选择被提出来解释尽管缺乏后天性状的遗传,但变化如何累积,就像模板介导的复制一样。它不能容纳一个过程与获得或横向(如社会)传播的特点的显着保留。此外,文化要素不能被视为离散的谱系,因为它们不断相互作用和影响。有人提出,通过文化进化的是心灵;思想和人工制品只是其当前进化状态的反映。相互作用的心智(部分地)通过一种非达尔文式的自我生成过程进行转化,这种过程类似于早期生命的进化过程,不是适者生存,而是实现其潜力。
英文摘要:
Because human cognition is creative and socially situated, knowledge accumulates, diffuses, and gets applied in new contexts, generating cultural analogs of phenomena observed in population genetics such as adaptation and drift. It is therefore commonly thought that elements of culture evolve through natural selection. However, natural selection was proposed to explain how change accumulates despite lack of inheritance of acquired traits, as occurs with template-mediated replication. It cannot accommodate a process with significant retention of acquired or horizontally (e.g. socially) transmitted traits. Moreover, elements of culture cannot be treated as discrete lineages because they constantly interact and influence one another. It is proposed that what evolves through culture is the mind; ideas and artifacts are merely reflections of its current evolved state. Interacting minds transform (in part) through through a non-Darwinian autopoietic process similar to that by which early life evolved, involving not survival of the fittest but actualization of their potential.
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