The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition Export

@article{Gabora2008CulturalEvolutionOfSociallySituatedCognition, abstract = {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 a non-Darwinian autopoietic process similar to that by which early life evolved, involving not survival of the fittest but actualization of their potential.}, author = {Gabora, Liane}, booktitle = {Perspectives on Social Cognition}, citeulike-article-id = {2475409}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.05.004}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1389041707000368}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4PG11DH-6/2/9825e2bc55b1abebb68436918864fe55}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://dx.doi.org.monstera.cc.columbia.edu:2048/10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.05.004}, doi = {10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.05.004}, journal = {Cognitive Systems Research}, keywords = {cultural-transmission, culture, evolution, situated-embodied-cognition}, month = {March}, number = {1-2}, pages = {104--114}, posted-at = {2008-12-03 03:05:13}, priority = {3}, title = {The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.05.004}, volume = {9}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - Gabora2008CulturalEvolutionOfSociallySituatedCognition L3 - citeulike-article-id:2475409 N2 - 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 a non-Darwinian autopoietic process similar to that by which early life evolved, involving not survival of the fittest but actualization of their potential. IS - 1-2 JF - Cognitive Systems Research EP - 114 TI - The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition VL - 9 T2 - Perspectives on Social Cognition SP - 104 KW - cultural-transmission KW - culture KW - evolution KW - situated-embodied-cognition AU - Gabora, Liane PY - 2008/03// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.05.004 ER -