The creative animal : how every animal builds its own existence / Roberto Marchesini.
Marchesini, Roberto, 1959- author.
2022
QL785
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Title The creative animal : how every animal builds its own existence / Roberto Marchesini.
Author Marchesini, Roberto, 1959- author.
ISBN 9783031074141 (electronic bk.)
3031074149 (electronic bk.)
3031074130
9783031074134
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07414-1
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 382 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-07414-1 doi
Call Number QL785
Dewey Decimal Classification 591.5
Summary This book deals with the theme of creativity in the animal world, conceived as a basic function for adapting to specific situations and as a source of innovations and inventions. Creativity is a fundamental resource for the individual who always has a leading role in conduct. To explain creativity, the book focuses on the concept of animal subjectivity, providing a new explanatory model of behavior capable of overcoming the image of the animal moved by automatisms. This model does not use consciousness as a necessary condition, but is based: 1) on affective components, such as behavioral motives, and 2) cognitive, as tools used by the subject to carry out his purposes. Particular attention is paid to the learning processes showing the subjective character of the experience. One topic addressed is the role of creativity in the evolution of living beings: how an invention, by modifying the niche characteristics, is able to change the selective pressures and the trajectory of phylogeny. Roberto Marchesini explains that creativity is a factor that is anything but rare or exceptional in the animal worldit constitutes a fundamental quality for many aspects of animal life.
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Intro
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: In Praise of Improvisation
Premise
Phylogenetic Knowledge
Expressive Singularity
The Art of Improvising
Works Cited
Chapter 2: On Subjectivity
Premise
Subjectivity as a Perspective on the World
Subjectivity and Agency
Evaluation as an Expression of Subjectivity
The Subject's Protagonism
In Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 3: The Role of Heritage
Premise
Being a Body
Heteronomy
Belonging and Individuality
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Being Interested
Premise
Experience as Dialogue

The Animal as a Desiring Entity
The Sentimental Condition of Animality
Works Cited
Chapter 5: The Ownership Principle
Premise
Indeterminacy as a Space of Subjectivity
The "Need" Character
Hedonism and Somatisation of the World
Works Cited
Chapter 6: Endowments as Tools
Premise
The Problem of Endowments
The Cognitive Level of Subjectivity
From Automatism to Tool
Works Cited
Chapter 7: The Territories of the Mind
Premise
The Evolution of the Mind
Being a Mind
The Propositional Model
Works Cited
Chapter 8: Leadership in Learning

Premise
Learning: Between Ethology and Neuroscience
Learning Means Being Present
The Laws of Learning
Learning and Ontogeny
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Animal Orientation
Premise
The Four Questions to Explain Expression
The Fifth Factor: Having Preferences
The Sixth Factor: Orientation Through Knowledge
Works Cited
Chapter 10: Niche Construction
Premise
Niche Construction Theory
Instinct and Intelligence
The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Creativity and Niche Construction
Works Cited
Chapter 11: Plural Intelligence
Premise

Intellectual Diversity
Culture in the Animal World
The Use of Tools Among Animals
Works Cited
Chapter 12: The Conditions of Creativity
Premise
The Emancipation of Animality
Going Back to the Subject
The Subject as Presence
Spaces of Creative Freedom
The Joy of Living
Works Cited
Index

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