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Health, consciousness, and the evolution of subjects.

Walter Veit

Synthese 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s11229-022-03998-z (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Keywords Consciousness Darwinism Health Organisms Pathological complexity
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Key points Argues that health and consciousness are interconnected and can be jointly understood as natural phenomena through an evolutionary perspective using state-based behavioral and life-history theory.

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The goal of this programmatic paper is to highlight a close connection between the core problem in the philosophy of medicine, i.e. the concept of health, and the core problem of the philosophy of mind, i.e. the concept of consciousness. I show when we look at these phenomena together, taking the evolutionary perspective of modern state-based behavioural and life-history theory used as the teleonomic tool to Darwinize the agent- and subject-side of organisms, we will be in a better position to make sense of them both as natural phenomena.

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