Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology

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Evolutionary Niche Construction, the Ecological Brain and Relational-Narrative Theology

Markus Mühling(Autor*in)

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 17. September 2014

254 Seiten

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This volume contains the results of research into the dialogue between theology and biology, particularly neuroscience and evolutionary theory. With regard to neuroscience, the representational paradigm is abandoned in favor of the ecological brain theory, which understands the brain as an organ of resonance between the living body and its surrounding environment. In relation to theological epistemology, this account not only leads to fruitful convergences, but also shows that revelation, as perception of God's triune presence in creation, has to be understood as a resonating and non extra-ordinary or general kind of perception, instead of being a special interpretation of experiences that are beyond the ordinary. With regard to the theory of evolution, the Neodarwinian paradigm is expanded with the help of the theory of niche-construction, in which the relationship between organisms and their environment is understood to be reciprocally resonating. This new and emerging paradigm in biology fits to a relational-narrative theological ontology, in which the relationship between the life of the triune God and creation can be modeled on basis of the key metaphor of niche construction understood as a reciprocally resonating dramatic coherence.Theologically, Markus Mühling presents a theory of revelation as perception and a relational-narrative ontology based on the concept of dramatic coherence, in which the triune life is understood not as an exception to ontology, but as the decisive condition of its possibility.For neuroscience and evolutionary theory it provides the insight that taking the concepts of internally related external relata and a phenomenological approach into account leads to new horizons for solving those problems seen in certain older paradigms as posing irreconcilable contradictions.Mühling also argues that a dialogue between theology and the natural sciences - in order to be fruitful - must be maintained in relative dependence and independence, that any such dialogue must take philosophical considerations into account, and that it is decisive for each of the dialogue partners to speak on behalf of their proper and particular areas of research.The proposed results also reflect the author's participation in the dialogue between leading theologians and scientists at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton (NJ) on Evolution and Human Nature in 2013.

Markus Mühling presents an epistemological theory of revelation as perception and a relational-narrative theological ontology based on the concept of dramatic coherence, in which the triune life is understood not as an anomaly within ontology, but rather as the decisive condition of its possibility. Mühling further demonstrates that potential for resolving certain theological problems arises if new insights from the natural sciences, such as the theory of the ecological brain in the neurosciences and the theory of niche-construction in evolutionary theory, are taken into account. Similarly, he also proposes that neuroscience and evolutionary biology can procure advantages from a dialogue with theology.

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1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - Title Page [Seite 4]
3 - Copyright [Seite 5]
4 - Table of Contents [Seite 8]
5 - Body [Seite 12]
6 - Preface [Seite 12]
7 - 1. The Dialogue between Theology and the Natural Sciences [Seite 14]
7.1 - 1.1 Certainties in the Natural Sciences and Theology [Seite 14]
7.2 - 1.2 Natural Sciences and Theology [Seite 18]
7.3 - 1.3 Two Regulative Principles: Etsi deus non daretur-etsi mundus non daretur [Seite 20]
7.4 - 1.4 The Core and the Periphery [Seite 22]
7.5 - 1.5 Entheorizing and Extheorizing [Seite 25]
7.6 - 1.6 Interdisciplinary Dialogue as Inter-Faith Dialogue [Seite 26]
7.7 - 1.7 Public Concern [Seite 27]
7.8 - 1.8 Metaphors, Models and Myths [Seite 30]
7.8.1 - 1.8.1 Metaphors [Seite 30]
7.8.2 - 1.8.2 Models [Seite 33]
7.8.3 - 1.8.3 Myths [Seite 34]
7.8.4 - 1.8.4 Theological Models [Seite 35]
8 - 2. Experience and Perception-Epistemology in the Neurosciences [Seite 37]
8.1 - 2.1 Neuroconstructivist-Representational Dualism in the Neurosciences [Seite 37]
8.1.1 - 2.1.1 Representationalism [Seite 37]
8.1.2 - 2.1.2 Modularity and Modularism [Seite 39]
8.1.3 - 2.1.3 Neuroconstructivism [Seite 41]
8.1.4 - 2.1.4 Mythical, Idealistic Dualism [Seite 43]
8.1.5 - 2.1.5 Phenomenal Naivety [Seite 45]
8.1.6 - 2.1.6 Causal Atomism and the Externality of Relations [Seite 47]
8.1.7 - 2.1.7 Individualist Intellectualism, Theory of Mind and the Social Brain Hypothesis [Seite 49]
8.1.8 - 2.1.8 Reductionist Naturalism [Seite 52]
8.2 - 2.2 Problems of Neuroconstructivist-Representational Dualism [Seite 53]
8.2.1 - 2.2.1 Abandoning Representationalism [Seite 53]
8.2.1.1 - 2.2.1.1 Ecological Subjectivity [Seite 53]
8.2.1.2 - 2.2.1.2 Externalism of Meaning [Seite 55]
8.2.1.3 - 2.2.1.3 Active Externalism [Seite 56]
8.2.1.4 - 2.2.1.4 Conceptual Experience [Seite 56]
8.2.2 - 2.2.2 Abandoning Modularism [Seite 60]
8.2.3 - 2.2.3 Abandoning Neuroconstructivism [Seite 62]
8.2.4 - 2.2.4 Abandoning Idealistic Dualism [Seite 62]
8.2.5 - 2.2.5 Abandoning Phenomal Naivety-Introducing Phenomenology [Seite 64]
8.2.6 - 2.2.6 Abandoning Causal Atomism and the Externality of Relations [Seite 64]
8.2.7 - 2.2.7 Abandoning Individualist Intellectualism, Theory of Mind and the Social Brain Hypothesis [Seite 66]
8.2.8 - 2.2.8 Abandoning Dogmatic Reductionist Naturalism [Seite 71]
8.3 - 2.3 The Ecological Brain [Seite 72]
8.3.1 - 2.3.1 The Leib as Subject [Seite 72]
8.3.2 - 2.3.2 Ecological Subjectivity [Seite 74]
8.3.3 - 2.3.3 Efficient Causality, Formative Causality and their Unity in Circular Causality [Seite 76]
8.3.4 - 2.3.4 Dynamic Capabilities, Open Loops and Formative History [Seite 78]
8.3.5 - 2.3.5 The Brain in the Framework of Vertical Circular Functional Circuits [Seite 79]
8.3.6 - 2.3.6 The Brain in the Framework of Horizontal Circular Functional Circuits and the Ecological Understanding of Perception and Consciousness [Seite 80]
8.3.7 - 2.3.7 The Basic Self and the Personal Self [Seite 83]
8.3.8 - 2.3.8 Implicit Theology in Fuchs' Theory [Seite 84]
9 - 3. Experiencing Divine Self-Presentation-Epistemology in Theology [Seite 87]
9.1 - 3.1 Sola experientia? [Seite 87]
9.2 - 3.2 A Basic Question of Theological Epistemology [Seite 92]
9.2.1 - 3.2.1 Revelation and Reason? [Seite 92]
9.2.2 - 3.2.2 Cognitive Sciences of Religion and Neurotheology [Seite 93]
9.2.3 - 3.2.3 The Possibility of Faith [Seite 98]
9.3 - 3.3 Revelation and Experience-The Initial Model [Seite 98]
9.4 - 3.4 Problems with the Initial Model in Light of the Neurosciences [Seite 106]
9.5 - 3.5 Perceiving Intendedness? [Seite 110]
9.6 - 3.6 Describing Faith [Seite 113]
9.6.1 - 3.6.1 Faith and Semantic Externalism [Seite 113]
9.6.2 - 3.6.2 Faith and Active Externalism [Seite 114]
9.6.3 - 3.6.3 Faith and Ecological Subjectivity [Seite 115]
9.6.4 - 3.6.4 Faith as Conceptual Experience [Seite 116]
9.6.5 - 3.6.5 Faith and the Basic Self [Seite 118]
9.6.6 - 3.6.6 Faith and the Personal Self [Seite 120]
9.7 - 3.7 Re-formulating the Initial Model of Revelation and Experience. [Seite 122]
9.7.1 - 3.7.1 The Structure of Narrative Identity [Seite 122]
9.7.2 - 3.7.2 Religious Experiences, Disclosure Experiences and Revelation [Seite 129]
9.8 - 3.8. Three Resonating Stories and Two Sets of Actors [Seite 131]
9.9 - 3.9 The Self-Presentation of the Triune God [Seite 132]
10 - 4. Evolution as Niche Construction [Seite 138]
10.1 - 4.1 Introduction [Seite 138]
10.2 - 4.2 Some Features of Neo-Darwinism [Seite 139]
10.3 - 4.3 Character Traits of Neo-Darwinism [Seite 141]
10.4 - 4.4 Problems of Neo-Darwinism [Seite 143]
10.5 - 4.5 Niche Construction as an Extended Evolutionary Theory [Seite 145]
10.5.1 - 4.5.1 The Basic Idea of Niche Construction [Seite 145]
10.5.2 - 4.5.2 Definitions, Categories and Principles of Niche Construction [Seite 146]
10.5.3 - 4.5.3 Models of Population Growth [Seite 150]
10.5.4 - 4.5.4 The Development of Homo and Paranthropus [Seite 152]
10.5.5 - 4.5.5 Neo-Darwinism as an Abstract Form of an Extended Theory [Seite 153]
10.6 - 4.6 Character Traits of Niche Construction [Seite 154]
10.6.1 - 4.6.1 Abandoning Hidden Representationalism [Seite 155]
10.6.2 - 4.6.2 Abandoning Hidden Dualism [Seite 155]
10.6.3 - 4.6.3 Abandoning Localized Information [Seite 155]
10.6.4 - 4.6.4 Internal Relationality [Seite 156]
10.6.5 - 4.6.5 Adding Formal Causality [Seite 156]
10.6.6 - 4.6.6 Genes as Providers of Open Loops [Seite 157]
10.6.7 - 4.6.7 Resonances Instead of Adaptions [Seite 158]
10.6.8 - 4.6.8 Semantics in Evolution? [Seite 159]
10.6.9 - 4.6.9 What about Phenomenology? [Seite 160]
10.6.10 - 4.6.10 Is there any teleology in evolution and why are people talking about it all the time? [Seite 161]
10.7 - 4.7 Implicit Theology in Niche Construction? [Seite 163]
11 - 5. The Triune Life, Niche Construction and Niche Reception [Seite 166]
11.1 - 5.1 A Proposal for a Doctrine of God [Seite 167]
11.1.1 - 5.1.1 A Storied God [Seite 167]
11.1.2 - 5.1.2 'Love Story God' [Seite 171]
11.1.3 - 5.1.3 The Attributes of the Relational Essence of God [Seite 176]
11.2 - 5.2 A Proposal for a Doctrine of God's Relation to the World [Seite 178]
11.2.1 - 5.2.1 Creation and Perfection [Seite 178]
11.2.2 - 5.2.2 Humans among other Created Animals [Seite 181]
11.2.3 - 5.2.3 Incarnation and the First Part of Reconciliation [Seite 190]
11.2.4 - 5.2.4 Concarnation and the Second Part of Reconciliation [Seite 194]
11.2.5 - 5.2.5 Attributes of God's Relation to the World [Seite 196]
11.3 - 5.3 Theological Expectations of Biology [Seite 198]
11.4 - 5.4 Faith as Niche Constructor-The Ecclesiological Meaning of Niche Construction [Seite 206]
11.5 - 5.5 Creation and Perfection as Niche Construction and Niche Reception [Seite 210]
11.5.1 - 5.5.1 Illingworth, Teilhard de Chardin and Theißen as Providers of Evolutionary Theological Models [Seite 210]
11.5.2 - 5.5.2 Contemporary and Ultimate Reality as Niche Construction [Seite 216]
12 - 6. Concluding Theses [Seite 223]
12.1 - 6.1 Epistemology in the Neurosciences and Theology [Seite 223]
12.2 - 6.2 Phenomenological Neurobiology and Niche Construction [Seite 224]
12.3 - 6.3 On Causality [Seite 224]
12.4 - 6.4 Narrative Relational Theology, Niche Construction and Niche Reception [Seite 225]
12.5 - 6.5 The Benefits of the Inter- and Transdisciplinary Trialogue [Seite 226]
13 - Abbreviations [Seite 228]
14 - Literature [Seite 229]
15 - Index of Authors [Seite 241]
16 - Index of Subjects [Seite 245]

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