title: Evolving an integral ecology of mind.
abstract: A deliberation upon the possibility of generating a comprehensive view of 'mind as a whole' by integrating biology, psychology and sociology, and considering 'Mind' as a dynamical interplay between values existing over many levels and scales of complex systems. This view of mind as a coevolutionary whole is related to similar ecological viewpoints being developed in the fields of artificial life and multi-agent systems. A meta-model of mind is proposed which attempts to integrate the various existing views of mind from a time perspective, and positions the field in a way that we think augurs well for the potential of mind studies based upon modern complex systems science concepts.
authors.affiliation: CALResCo Group, Middleton, Manchester, UK. cl@calresco.org
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lucas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001364:Awareness; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological