Developmental Programming, Evolution, and Animal Welfare: A Case for Evolutionary Veterinary Science

Veit, Walter; Browning, Heather

doi:10.1080/10888705.2021.2014838

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“…We think there is much promise in the idea that the brain is continually and rapidly scanning the environment for opportune information and attempting to match this to relevant stored representations, a process that sometimes intrudes into conscious awareness. Indeed, it would allow us to explain both IAMS and déjà vu experiences as evolutionary mismatches, phenomena that have received much attention in the evolutionary medicine literature (see Manus 2018;Stearns, 2012;Veit & Browning, 2021). Since our modern environments contain many more stimuli than the ancestral ones in which our memory system evolved, it should not be at all surprising that there can be frequent instances of misfiring, especially whenas in the cases of anomalies such as IAMs and déjà vu experiencesthere does not appear to be an immediate fitness cost.…”

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Are involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu natural products of memory retrieval?

Barzykowski

Moulin

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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Involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) and déjà vu are phenomena that occur spontaneously in daily life. IAMs are recollections of the personal past, whereas déjà vu is defined as an experience in which the person feels familiarity at the same time as knowing that the familiarity is false. We present and discuss the idea that both IAMs and déjà vu can be explained as natural phenomena resulting from memory processing and, importantly, are both based on the same memory retrieval processes. Briefly, we hypothesise that both can be described as ‘involuntary’ or spontaneous cognitions, where IAMs deliver content and déjà vu delivers only the feeling of retrieval. We map out the similarities and differences between the two, making a theoretical and neuroscientific account for their integration into models of memory retrieval and how the autobiographical memory literature can explain these quirks of daily life and unusual but meaningful phenomena. We explain the emergence of the déjà vu phenomenon by relating it to well-known mechanisms of autobiographical memory retrieval, concluding that IAMs and déjà vu lie on a continuum.

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Are involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu natural products of memory retrieval?

Barzykowski

Moulin

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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“…We think there is much promise in the idea that the brain is continually and rapidly scanning the environment for opportune information and attempting to match this to relevant stored representations, a process that sometimes intrudes into conscious awareness. Indeed, it would allow us to explain both IAMS and déjà vu experiences as evolutionary mismatches, phenomena that have received much attention in the evolutionary medicine literature (see Manus 2018; Stearns, 2012; Veit & Browning, 2021). Since our modern environments contain many more stimuli than the ancestral ones in which our memory system evolved, it should not be at all surprising that there can be frequent instances of misfiring, especially when – as in the cases of anomalies such as IAMs and déjà vu experiences – there does not appear to be an immediate fitness cost.…”

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Evolutionary mismatch and anomalies in the memory system

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Browning

2023

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Health, consciousness, and the evolution of subjects

Veit

2022

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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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Developmental Programming, Evolution, and Animal Welfare: A Case for Evolutionary Veterinary Science

Cited by 18 publications

References 98 publications

Are involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu natural products of memory retrieval?

Are involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu natural products of memory retrieval?

Evolutionary mismatch and anomalies in the memory system

Health, consciousness, and the evolution of subjects

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