- 07/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – The Beginning
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- 07/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Bipedal Development I
- Adam Chou (2)
- 07/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Bipedal Development II
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- 07/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Bipedal Development III
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- 07/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Social Development I
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- 07/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Social Development II
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- 07/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Communication Development I
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- 07/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Communication Development II
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- 08/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Appendix –Peking Man I
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- 08/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Appendix – Peking Man II
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- 08/06 Evolutionary Process of Hominids – Appendix –Peking Man III
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- 08/06 Evolutionary Perspective of Cognition – Background I
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- 08/06 Evolutionary Perspective of Cognition - Background II
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- 08/06 Genetic Data Bias I - Sampling
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- 08/06 Genetic Data Bias II – Molecular Clock
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- 08/06 Gap Between Cognition and Neurons
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- 08/06 Thought Process I - Introduction
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- 09/06 Thought Process II – Mirror Neurons I
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- 09/06 Thought Process II – Mirror Neurons II
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- 09/06 Thought Process II - Mirror Neurons III
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- 11/06 Thought Process III – Direction of Sound
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- 11/06Thought Process IV – Development of Cognition
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- 07/07 Thought Process V – Moving Objects
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- 08/07 Thought Process VI – Motherly Love
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- 08/07 Thought Process VII – Infant Development - 1
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- 11/07 Thought Process VII- Infant Development - 2
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- 11/07 Thought Process VII - Infant Development - 3
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- 11/07 Thought Process VIII- Autism - 1
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- 11/07 Thought Process VIII - Autism - 2
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- 11/07 Thought Process IX - Memory - 1 - 5
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- 12/07 Thoyght Process X - Tool Using - 1&2
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- 12/07 Thought Process XI - Language
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- 01/08 Thought Process XII - Competition
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- 01/08 Though Process XIII - Decision Making 1
- Adam Chou (39)
- 01/08 Thought Process XIII - Decision Making 2
- Adam Chou (40)
- 05/08 Development of Computer (1-4)
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- 05/08 Computer versus Human Neural System (1-9)
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- 0?/08 Matuuring Infant Brain - Infants to Teenagers
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- 0?/08 Evolution of Brain
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- 0?/08 Neurotransmitters
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- 0?/08 Configuration of Neurons - NNB 1
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- 0?/08 Configuration of Neurons - NNB 2
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- 0?/08 Configuration of Neurons - NNB 3
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- 0?/08 Configuration of Neurons -NNB 4
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- 0?/08 Configuration of Neurons - NNB 5
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- 0?/08 Emotion
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- 0?/08 Intuition/Subconscious
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- 0?/08 Personallties
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Road Map
(Guide to Website)
This website is a cumulative effort of my research based upon existing literature for the past fifteen years in hypothesizing the evolutionary development of cognition in the animal world according to the thesis that evolution is a step-wise continuous process in adapting to a niche. Also physiological and cognitive developments evolved in tandem. Background of this website is given in the “Home” page and this passage is intended to provide a road map for readers to appreciate the relationship of these numerous unrelated articles to the them of this website.
Based on these evolutionary principles, cognition, along with the physical brain, evolved from bottom up as single cell animals evolved into human with a brain composed of neurons, billions in number (Article 12-13: Evolutionary perspective of cognition). “Evolutionary Process of Hominids” (Article 1-8) are the fruits of my early work, fifteen years ago. These articles demonstrate that cognitive and physiological development of hominids evolved hand-in-hand. I completed “Development of Computer” (41-44) and its analogy to the human brain (Computer versus human neural system; (Articles 45-53) which have helped me to grasp significant insights into what is needed to understand the functions of brain. The remaining articles, as shown by the “Listing” are in progress to be published soon..
Being at the final part of my website, I have arrived at a hypothesis of the evolutionary impact upon our cognitive development (Articles 17 and 22 respectively with titles as Thought process I – introduction and Thought process IV – development of cognition”). Basically, neurons form blocks named here as neural net block (NNB, articles are rough drafted) which perform some basic functions such as “Motherly love” or “Competition” (Articles 16, 24 and 38 as “Gap between cognition and neurons”, “Motherly love” and “Competition”). (Mirror neurons are basic blocks serving as input/output functions between our sensors and our body, such as arms, legs. Articles 18-20). These NNB groups would be interacting to enact our thought process (Articles 21, 23, and 35-36, “Direction of sound”, “Moving objects”, and “Tool using”). Future work is needed to understand how a group of neurons encode cognitive functions, for example, in the case of computer software system, ASCII codes are composed of groups of on/off switches in the silicon chips representing all of the keys in the typewriter so that we are able to program and communicate with the computer to perform the tasks we desire. Even more challenging is to understand how to define NNB functions in terms of our knowledge of brain functions as they appear to us.
After completing all of these tasks, we will still be faced with how emotion, personalities, subconscious come about. It is likely that we can analyze the chemical components of virus but how such large organic molecules gain life to reproduce and cause diseases will still be a puzzle to us for a long time.