--- abstract: |-2 In this paper I will propose just the simplest part of a three-part hypothesis for a solution of the problem of consciousness.{1} It proposes that the evolutionary rationale for the brains of complex organisms was neither representation nor reactive parallelism as is generally presupposed, but was specifically an internal operational organization of blind biologic process instead. I propose that our cognitive objects are deep operational metaphors of primitive biological response rather than informational referents to environment. I argue that this operational organization was an evolutionary necessity to enable an adroit functioning of profoundly complex metacellular organisms in a hostile and overwhelmingly complex environment. I argue that this organization was antithetical to a representative role however. I have argued elsewhere (Iglowitz, 1995), that this hypothesis, (in concert with ancillary logical and epistemological hypotheses), opens the very first real possibility for an actual and adequate solution of the problem of "consciousness". altloc: - http://www.foothill.net/~jerryi/biology-html.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Iglowitz given: Jerome honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2001 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-09-01 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/17/86 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1786 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/1786/1/BIOLOGY%2Dhtml.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'mind-brain, evolution, operational organization, schematic model, cognitive metaphor' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:47 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: |- Asimov, I. (1977) Asimov on Numbers. Pocket Books. Birkhoff, G. & Mac Lane, S. (1955). A Survey of Modern Algebra. MacMillan Company. Cassirer, E. (1953). The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. (Translation by Ralph Manheim). Yale University Press. Cassirer, E. (1923). Substance and Function and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. (Bound as one: translation by William Curtis Swabey). Open Court. Dreyfus, H. (1992). What Computers Still Can't Do. MIT Press. Edelman, G. (1992). Bright Air, Brilliant Fire. BasicBooks. Freeman, W.H. (1995). Societies of Brains. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Gould, S. J. (1994). The Evolution of Life on the Earth. Hofstadter, D. (1979). Goedel, Escher, Bach. Vintage. Iglowitz, J. (1996). The Logical Problem of Consciousness. Presented to the UNESCO "Ontology II Congress". Barcelona, Spain. Iglowitz, J. (1995).Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained. Online at www.foothill.net/~jerryi Iglowitz, J. (2001). Consciousness: a Simpler Approach to the Mind-Brain Problem (Implicit Definition, Virtual Reality and the Mind) Online at www.foothill.net/~jerryi Maturana, H. and Varela, F. (1987). The Tree of Knowledge. Shambala Press. Minsky, M. (1985). The Society of Mind. Touchstone. Smart, H. (1949). Cassirer's Theory of Mathematical Concepts in The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, Tudor Publishing. Van Fraassen, B. (1991). Quantum Mechanics, an Empiricist View, Clarendon Press. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:40:26 subjects: - phil-mind succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Mind: the Argument from Evolutionary Biology' type: preprint userid: 2043 volume: ~