title: The evolution of the human mind and logic--mathematics structures.
abstract: The evolution of the human mind is discussed based on: (i) the fact that living beings interchange matter, energy and information with their environment, (ii) an ontological interpretation of the "reality" of the quantum world, of which logic-mathematics structures are considered constitutive parts, (iii) recent theories according to which living beings are considered as dynamic complex systems organized by information, and (iv) the fact that the evolution of living beings is guided by information about the environment and by intrinsic information on living systems (auto-organization). Assuming the evolution of vision as a model we observe that the driving forces that directed the evolution of the eyes, as dynamic complex systems, are the information about the environment supplied by sunlight and the intrinsic information-gaining mechanism of living organisms. Thus, there exists a convergence toward a visual system with the greatest ability to obtain light information, like the human eye, and also a divergence that leads to the development of specific qualities in some species. As in the case of vision the evolution of the human mind-brain cannot be a consequence of factors unrelated to the object of its own functioning. The human mind was structured for the acquisition from reality of the logic-mathematics structures that underlie the whole universe and consequently of an internal representation of the external world and of its own self. Thus, these structures are, together with the intrinsic capacity for auto-organization of the human brain, the predominant driving force of the human mind evolution. Both factors are complementary.
authors.affiliation: Medicinal Chemistry NIQFAR, Universidade do Vale do Itajai (UNIVALI), 88302-202, Itajai, SC, Brazil. ryunes@qmc.ufsc.br
authors.forename: Rosendo A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Yunes
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008606:Mental Processes; D008954:Models, Biological; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology