Emergentní evoluce a emergentní mysl

Abstract

The concept of emergence is generally described as a specific kind of dependency relationship between two levels of properties. The term emergence figures in a number of disciplines beyond its traditional area of the philosophy of mind, for instance in artificial intelligence, the leading discipline of cognitive sciences. The proposed contribution aims to highlight the fact that philosophy is not the only origin of the modern concept of emergence. There is also a biological motivation of the development of the theory of emergence and that is why British emergentism and Darwinism should be mentioned. Life as an emergent property of biological structures could be a source of artificial life conceptions in current artificial intelligence studies. Attention should be paid to the impact of a new description or new interpretation of nature and its development (the theory of evolution) on the interpretation of the mind phenomenon.