Animal Mind — Human Mind: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Animal Mind — Human Mind, Berlin 1981, March 22–27

428 Pages·1982·4.828 MB·English

by  D. R. Griffin (auth.), D. R. Griffin (eds.)

Dahlem Workshop Reports
Life Sciences Research Report 21
Animal Mind - Human Mind
The goal of this Dahlem Workshop is:
to explore the nature of the animal mind
and to develop new approaches to its understanding
Life Sciences Research Reports
Editor: Silke Bernhard
Held and published on behalf of the
Stifterverband fUr die Deutsche Wissenschaft
Sponsored by:
Senat der Stadt Berlin
Stifterverband fUr die Deutsche Wissenschaft
Animal Mind -
Human Mind
D. R. Griffin, Editor
Report of the Dahlem Workshop on
Animal Mind - Human Mind
Berlin 1981, March 22-27
Rapporteurs:
M. Dawkins· W. Kintsch . H. J. Neville· R. M. Seyfarth
Program Advisory Committee:
D. R. Griffin, Chairman· J. F. Bennett· D. Dorner
S. A. Hillyard· B. K. Holldobler . H. S. Markl . P. R. Marler
D.Premack
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1982
Copy Editors: M. Cervantes-Waldmann, K. McWhirter
Photographs: E. P. Thonke
With 4 photographs, 30 figures, and 2 tables
ISBN-13:978-3-642-68471-5 e-ISBN-13:978-3-642-68469-2
001: 10.1007/978-3-642-68469-2
CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutsachen Bibliothek:
Animal mind - human mind: report of the Dahlem Workshop on Animal Mind -
Human Mind, Berlin 1981, March 22-27 1 D. R. Griffin, ed. Rapporteurs: M. Dawkins.
[Dahlem Konferenzen. Held and publ. on behalf of the Stifterverb. fUr d. Dt. Wiss.
Sponsored by: Senat d. Stadt Berlin; Stifterverb. fUr d. Dt. Wiss.]. - Berlin;
Heidelberg; New York: Springer, 1982.
(Life sciences research report; 21)
(Dahlem workshop reports)
NE: Griffin, Donald R. [Hrsg.]; Dawkins, Marian [Mitverf.]; Workshop on Animal Mind,
Human Mind <1981, Berlin, West>; Dahlem Konferenzen; GT
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Table of Contents
The Dahlem Konferenzen.................................... ix
Introduction ............................................. .
D.R. Griffin
Brain Functions and Mental Processes ...................... 13
S.A. Hillyard and F.E. Bloom
Some Perspectives on the Evolution of ..................... 33
Intelligence and the Brain
W. Hodos
Mental Processes in the Nonverbal Hemisphere .......•.... ,. 57
J. Levy
Risk-benefit Assessment in Animals ........................ 75
R.H. Drent
The Ecological Conditions of Thinking ..................... 95
D. Dorner
Social Knowledge in Free-ranging Primates ................. 113
H. Kummer
Primate Social Intelligence: .............................. 131
Contributions from the Laboratory
W.A. Mason
Internal Representation ................................... 145
L.A. Cooper
Problem Solving........................................... 159
G. Liler
Ascent of Apes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 177
D.J. Gillan
Cognitive Knowledge and Executive Control: ................ 201
Metacognition
R.H. Kluwe
On the Evolution of Cognitive Processes and ............... 225
Performances
F. Klix
vi Table of Contents
Study of Vertebrate Communication - .......•.....•.•.••.•. 251
Its Cognitive Implications
C.G. Beer
The Insect Mind: Physics or Metaphysics? .........•....... 269
J.L. Gould and C.G. Gould
Cognitive Aspects of Ape Language Experiments ..... ......•. 299
C.A. Ristau and D. Robbins
Group Photo: ...............•.•...•........................ 332
Neuropsychological Approaches
Neuropsychological Approaches ............................. 333
State of the Art Report
H.J. Neville and S.A. Hillyard, Rapporteurs
F.E. Bloom, T.H. Bullock, R.J. Cohen, A. Elepfandt,
P.S. Goldman-Rakic, W. Hodos, J. Levy, G.S. Lynch,
P. Smith Churchland
Group Photo: .....................•......................•. 354
Evolutionary Ecology of Thinking
Evolutionary Ecology of Thinking ........ .................. 355
State of the Art Report
M. Dawkins, Rapporteur
N. Bischof, D. Dorner, R.H. Drent, J.R. Krebs, H. Kummer,
J. Lamprecht, H.S. Markl, W.A. Mason, G.H. Orians,
G.A. Parker, F. Reither, J.E.R. Staddon, C. Welker
Group Photo:.............................................. 374
Comparative Approaches to Animal Cognition
Comparative Approaches to Animal Cognition ..... ........... 375
State of the Art Report
W. Kintsch, Rapporteur
R.H. Brown, J. CerelIa, J.H. Crook, J.A. Fodor,
D.J. Gillan, H. Gleitman, D.R. Griffin, F.W. Hesse,
F. Klix, R.H. Kluwe, G. Llier, P. Rozin, R. Wehner
Group Photo: ........•................•..•.•.•......•••..•. 390
Communication As Evidence of Thinking
Communication As Evidence of Thinking ..................... 391
State of the Art Report
R.M. Seyfarth, Rapporteur
C.G. Beer, D.C. Dennett, J.L. Gould, M. Lindauer,
P.R. Marler, C.A. Ristau, E.S. Savage-Rumbaugh,
R.C. Solomon, H.S. Terrace
Table of Contents vii
Afterthoughts on Animal Minds ............................. 407
T.H. Bullock
List of Participants ...................................... 415
Subj ect Index............................................. 419
Author Index .............................................. 427
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DIRECTOR:
Silke Bernhard, M.D.
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Animal Mind - Human Mind, ed. D.R. Griffin, pp. 1-12.
Dahlem Konferenzen 1982. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag.
Introduction
D. R. Griffin
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY 10021, USA
Prominently displayed in each meeting room was the stated pur
pose of this Dahlem Conference: To explore the nature of the
animal mind and develop new approaches to its understanding.
We were inquiring whether nonhuman animals have mental experi
ences, and if so which animals, under what conditions.
We were also trying to develop ways to learn what any mental
experiences that may occur are actually like to the animals
concerned. Do they ever think about images or representations
of the outside world, examine them, and make choices as to how
their own behavior might change the situation? Or are all non
human animals invariably in a state comparable to a human sleep
walker, responding mechanically, even though often adaptively?
In recent years such questions have been taboo in the behavioral
sciences. But, as I have suggested elsewhere (7, 8), it may now
be time to lay these inhibitions aside and make a new attempt to
explore important scientific territory that has been largely
neglected for several decades. Many philosophers such as
Armstrong (1), Bunge (2), Dennett (3), Fodor (6), and Taylor (11)
have long since escaped from the counterproductive self-paralysis
that was once advocated by positivists and strict behaviorists.
Although reopening these questions may seem pOintless or even