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  • Comparative psychology, ethology, and neurophysiology.
  • Explores the concept of 'mind' across different life forms.

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  • Conventional view: mental activities in animals suggest a mind.
  • Proposed alternative: unpredictable activities in living beings create the impression of mind.
  • Unpredictability is a characteristic of all living things.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a new perspective on the origin of the impression of 'mind'.
  • To investigate if 'mind' as a source of unpredictability is a real phenomenon.
  • To introduce a conceptual model for understanding the mind.

Main Methods:

  • Examined animal mind through comparative psychology, ethology, and neurophysiology.
  • Investigated the relationship between animal unpredictability and emergent behavior.
  • Analyzed studies on innate and emergent behaviors in animals facing novel tasks.

Main Results:

  • Hypothesized that a 'behavioral inhibition network' in animals generates unpredictability.
  • Found that animals frequently generated unpredictable ('emergent') behaviors in novel problem-solving tasks.
  • Suggested that unpredictable behavior is a key indicator of a mind.

Conclusions:

  • The 'behavioral inhibition network' may be the source of unpredictable behavior and the impression of mind.
  • This concept may extend beyond animals to plants and even inanimate materials.
  • Supports a science of universal mind based on behavioral inhibition and unpredictability.