?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Performances+of+Self-Awareness+used+to+explain+the+Evolutionary+Advantages+of+Consciousness+&rft.creator=Menant%2C+Christophe+R.&rft.subject=Primatology&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.description=The+question+about+evolution+of+consciousness+has+been+addressed+so+far+as+possible+selectional+advantage+related+to+consciousness+(%22What+evolutionary+advantages%2C+if+any%2C+being+conscious+might+confer+on+an+organism+%3F+%22).+But+evidencing+an+adaptative+explanation+of+consciousness+has+proven+to+be+very+difficult.+Reason+for+that+being+the+complexity+of+consciousness.+%0AWe+take+here+a+different+approach+on+subject+by+looking+at+possible+selectional+advantages+related+to+the+performance+of+Self+Awareness+that+appeared+during+evolution+millions+of+years+before+consciousness+as+we+know+it+for+humans.%0AThe+interest+of+such+an+approach+is+that+the+analysis+of+selectional+advantage+is+done+at+an+evolution+step+sigificantly+simpler+that+the+step+of+Human+Consciousness.%0AWe+analyse+how+evolutionary+advantages+have+resulted+from+this+specific+Self+Awareness+step.+This+is+done+by+taking+into+consideration+the+possibility+for+a+subject+to+identify+with+a+conspecific+at+this+level+of+evolution.+We+use+the+results+made+available+by+Mirror+Neuron+researchs+where+intersubjectivity+and+some+level+of+identification+with+conspecifics+have+been+evidenced+for+non+human+primates.+%0ASelectional+advantages+related+to+Self+Awareness+are+analysed+two+ways%3A%0A-+Reformulating+the+performances+of+imitation+and+of+development+of+language.+%0A-+Showing+that+Self+Awareness+within+group+life+can+naturaly+produce+an+important+increase+in+fear%2Fanxiety+for+a+subject%2C+and+that+the+means+implemented+by+the+subject+to+overcome+this+fear%2Fanxiety+can+act+as+significant+evolution+advantages+opening+the+road+to+Human+Consciousness.+Such+approach+brings+new+elements+supporting+the+view+that+consciousness+is+grounded+in+emotions.+It+also+proposes+some+more+evolutionist+explanations+to+the+widely+dicussed+subject+of+Empathy+(S.+Preston+%26+F.+de+Waal)+in+terms+of+specific+behaviour+implemented+to+limit+fear%2Fanxiety+increase.+%0AThis+approach+also+provides+some+explanation+for+limited+anxiety+within+dolphins+and+introduces+a+basis+for+a+possible+phylogenesis+of+emotions.%0A&rft.date=2004&rft.type=Conference+Poster&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3715%2F1%2Findex.html&rft.identifier=++Menant%2C+Christophe+R.++(2004)+Performances+of+Self-Awareness+used+to+explain+the+Evolutionary+Advantages+of+Consciousness.++%5BConference+Poster%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3715%2F