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La letteratura necessaria. Sul confine tra letteratura ed evoluzione

2011

Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria E Letterature ComparateLetteratura Biopoetica Darwinismo
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Perchè le storie ci aiutano a vivere. La letteratura necessaria

2017

Non sappiamo perché e come l’Homo sapiens abbia sviluppato la capacità di costruire storie. Possiamo però ipotizzare come presumibilmente siano andate le cose. Cioè come un ominide abbia sviluppato la facoltà di narrare storie e come queste lo abbiano avvantaggiato tra tutte le specie. Si tratta dunque di studiare la narrazione, la fiction e la letteratura nel contesto della teoria dell’evoluzione e delle scienze cognitive, prendendo le mosse dalle recenti acquisizioni dell’archeologia cognitiva che mettono in relazione la produzione di utensili e lo sviluppo di capacità narrative. Si comprende così che la narrazione ha un ruolo decisivo nella costituzione del Sé e delle sue protesi esterne…

Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria E Letterature ComparateLiterary Cognitivism Literary Darwinism Biopoetica Teoria della Letteratura
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Letteratura e darwinismo. Introduzione alla biopoetica

2018

La teoria letteraria ha dovuto di recente prendere atto del superamento della tesi delle "due culture", quella scientifica e quella umanistica, e ha cominciato a interrogarsi sull'interazione tra evoluzione biologica ed evoluzione culturale degli ominidi. Dopo un'ampia analisi della svolta bioculturale, il libro si sofferma sul cosiddetto Literary Darwinism, sia nella sua versione ortodossa, sia nelle forme che attingono alle scienze della mente, alle neuroscienze e all'archeologia cognitiva. Si delineano così i tratti fondamentali di una biopoetica, la disciplina che si propone di far convergere scienze del bios e teoria letteraria nel contesto più ampio di uno studio del comportamento nar…

Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria E Letterature ComparateTeoria della letteratura Darwinismo Biopoetica
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Breve storia della bioetica. Gottschall, Boyd, Dutton

2019

l termine ‘biopoetica’ affascina gli studiosi di letteratura, e ancor più la moda delle ‘svolte bioculturali’. Ancora una volta, sullo sfondo ci sono figure come quelle di Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze e Felix Guattari, ai quali va l’indiscutibile merito di aver voluto ripercorrere più volte il sentie- ro fangoso che unisce gli studi umanistici alle scienze naturali, tra l’altro dando ampia diffusione a termini come ‘biopolitica’ e ‘biofilosofia’. the term "biopoetic" fascinates scholars of literature, and even more the fashion of "biocultural changes". Once again, in the background there are figures like those of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who deserve unquestiona…

Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria E Letterature Comparatebiopoetic literary darwinismbiopoetica darwinismo letterario
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Reading a Qubit Quantum State with a Quantum Meter: Time Unfolding of Quantum Darwinism and Quantum Information Flux

2019

Quantum non-Markovianity and quantum Darwinism are two phenomena linked by a common theme: the flux of quantum information between a quantum system and the quantum environment it interacts with. In this work, making use of a quantum collision model, a formalism initiated by Sudarshan and his school, we will analyse the efficiency with which the information about a single qubit gained by a quantum harmonic oscillator, acting as a meter, is transferred to a bosonic environment. We will show how, in some regimes, such quantum information flux is inefficient, leading to the simultaneous emergence of non-Markovian and non-darwinistic behaviours.

Statistics and ProbabilityPhysicsReading (computer)FluxStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsQuantum Darwinism01 natural sciencesSettore FIS/03 - Fisica Della Materiaquantum non-Markovianity010305 fluids & plasmasQuantum stateQuantum mechanicsQubit0103 physical sciencesQuantum DarwinismQuantum systemcollision modelQuantum information010306 general physicsdecoherenceQuantumMathematical Physics
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Darwinism and the Origin of Life

2012

Abstract Historically, ideas on the origins of life have been mingled with evolutionary explanations. Darwin avoided discussing the origin of the very first species in public although he acknowledged the possibility that life originated by natural causes. Some of his followers adopted this materialistic position and advocated some sort of spontaneous generation in the distant past. Nevertheless, Pasteur’s experiments were a major obstacle for scientific acceptance of the sudden emergence of life. The scientific study of the origin of life, established in the 1920s, required abandoning the idea of a unique chance event and considering a view of life emerging as the result of a long evolution…

Universal DarwinismAbiogenesisEvent (relativity)Darwin (ADL)Natural (music)DarwinismSociologySocial scienceMaterialismSociology of EducationEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsEducationEpistemologyEvolution: Education and Outreach
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Evolucionismo, integración sociocognitiva y cambio semántico

2014

El cambio es el fenómeno lingüístico por excelencia a la hora de aplicar los modelos teóricos evolucionistas. La perspectiva evolucionista del lenguaje permite analizar el cambio lingüístico como un fenómeno sujeto a los mismos procesos evolutivos que determinan cualquier sistema evolutivo complejo. El objetivo de este estudio es defender una integración más sistemática de los factores sociales y cognitivos del cambio lingüístico, en particular del cambio semántico. Este artículo se centra en un enfoque evolutivo del cambio lingüístico muy influyente, la Teoría de la Selección del Enunciado del cambio lingüístico desarrollada por Croft (2000). El enfoque evolutivo de Croft se inspira en la …

lcsh:Language and Literaturecambio lingüísticodarwinismo generalizadoevoluciónEvolutionFilologíasGeneralized darwinismReplicationreplicaciónmodelos evolucionistasEvolutionary modelsCambio semánticolcsh:P1-1091Language changeDarwinismo generalizadoSelectioncognición socialUNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRASLingüísticaModelos evolucionistasSeleccióncambio semánticoSocial cognitionlingüística cognitivalcsh:Philology. LinguisticsEvoluciónLingüística cognitivacambio lingüístico; cambio semántico; evolución; modelos evolucionistas; replicación; selección; darwinismo generalizado; lingüística cognitiva; cognición socialReplicaciónselección:CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRAS [UNESCO]Cognitive linguisticslcsh:PCognición socialCambio lingüísticoSemantic change
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Compositional Homology and Creative Thinking

2015

The concept of homology is the most solid theoretical basis elaborated by the morphological thinking during its history. The enucleation of some general criteria for the interpretation of homology is today a fundamental tool for life sciences, and for restoring their own opening to the question of qualitative innovation that arose so powerfully in the original Darwinian project. The aim of this paper is to verify the possible uses of the concept of compositional homology in order to provide of an adequate understanding of the dynamics of creative thinking.

lcsh:Language and Literaturelcsh:BH1-301DarwinismSettore M-FIL/04 - Esteticalcsh:PAesthetic attitudeAesthetic MindAesthetic Mind; Homology; Innovation; Aesthetic attitude; DarwinismInnovationlcsh:AestheticsHomology
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Decoherence without entanglement and quantum Darwinism

2020

It is often assumed that decoherence arises as a result of the entangling interaction between a quantum system and its environment, as a consequence of which the environment effectively measures the system, thus washing away its quantum properties. Moreover, this interaction results in the emergence of a classical objective reality, as described by quantum Darwinism. In this Rapid Communication, we show that the idea that entanglement is needed for decoherence is imprecise. We propose a dynamical mixing mechanism capable of inducing decoherence dynamics on a system without creating any entanglement with its quantum environment. We illustrate this mechanism by introducing a simple and exactl…

open quantum systems. decoherence quantum darwinism quantum nonmarkovianity---PhysicsQuantum PhysicsQuantum decoherenceProperty (philosophy)FOS: Physical sciencesTheoryofComputation_GENERALQuantum entanglementQuantum PhysicsQuantum Darwinism01 natural sciences010305 fluids & plasmasQubitQuantum mechanics0103 physical sciencesQuantum Physics (quant-ph)010306 general physicsQuantum
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