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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Terrence_DeaconTerrence Deacon - Wikipedia

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   Terrence William Deacon (born 1950) is an American neuroanthropologist (Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, Harvard University 1984). He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and is currently Professor of Anthropology and member of the Cognitive Science Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley .

2. anthropology.berkeley.edu › terrence-w-deaconTerrence W. Deacon | Anthropology

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   Professor Deacon's research has combined human evolutionary biology and neuroscience, with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition. His work extends from laboratory-based cellular-molecular neurobiology to the study of semiotic processes underlying animal and human communication, especially language.

3. anthropology.berkeley.edu › symbolic-species-coThe Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the ...

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   Terrence W. Deacon. This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains ...

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   What does Professor deacon do?

   • Professor Deacon's research has combined human evolutionary biology and neuroscience, with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition. His work extends from laboratory-based cellular-molecular neurobiology to the study of semiotic processes underlying animal and human communication, especially language.

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   Why is Deacon important?

   • Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind.

   The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain

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   Does deacon believe in dynamical systems?

   • In contrast to the arguments presented by Juarrero in Dynamics in Action (1999, MIT Press) and by Thompson in Mind in Life (2007, Belknap Press and Harvard University Press), Deacon explicitly rejects claims that living or mental phenomena can be explained by dynamical systems approaches.

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   Is deacon based on Alicia Juarrero and Evan Thompson?

   • Critics of the book argue that Deacon has drawn heavily from the works of Alicia Juarrero and Evan Thompson without providing full citations or references, but a UC Berkeley investigation exonerated Deacon.

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   Dec 15, 2023 · Deacon shows how two interacting thermodynamic processes might twist themselves like balloon animals into cunning new shapes in which the flow of causation could become temporarily anti-entropic, such that the new organizations would manifest a tendency toward self-preservation.

6. vcresearch.berkeley.edu › faculty › terrence-deaconTerrence Deacon | Research UC Berkeley

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   My research combines human evolutionary biology and neuroscience, with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition. My work extends from laboratory-based cellular-molecular neurobiology to the study of semiotic processes underlying animal and human communication, especially language.

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8. scholar.google.com.sg › citations‪Terrence W. DEACON‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

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   2009. Transplanted xenogeneic neural cells in neurodegenerative disease models exhibit remarkable axonal target specificity and distinct growth patterns of glial and axonal fibres. O Isacson, TW Deacon, P Pakzaban, WR Galpern, J Dinsmore, LH Burns. Nature medicine 1 (11), 1189-1194.

9. anthropology.berkeley.edu › incomplete-nature-howIncomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

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   Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. Terrence W. Deacon. As physicists work toward completing a theory of the Universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent.