Abstract Advances in contemporary cognitive science suggest that our internal representational systems are powerfully shaped by interacting evolutionary, developmental, and neuro-computational processes. Although Jung’s archetypes of the collective unconscious are largely dismissed by modern psychological science, something very much like them emerges from the intersection of these perspectives. Functional analysis suggests that a variety of conserved systems—basic biological ones, like self-protection and mating, as well as more complex social ones, like cheater-detection—need to make use of more general representational systems (like face perception) to simulate and predict adaptive responses to recurring environmental problems. Furthermore, analogous to the capacity to develop language, these systems depend on specific input at critical developmental stages. Archetypes reflect the interaction of domain-specific challenges and domain-general simulations. They are dynamic patterns of perception, memory, and action, resonating with ancient motivational and emotional systems. They shed light on how the symbolic emerges from the subsymbolic. Archetypes are thus the natural consequence of our fundamental social goals playing out in three nested dynamics: the online representation of reality by mental simulation systems, the history of personal experiences that build a particular instantiation of these systems, and the evolutionary dynamics that selected the web of cognitive and affective capacities that all normally developing humans share. This modern elaboration of the idea of archetypes fuses disparate conceptual perspectives, provokes methodological reorientations, generates novel hypotheses, and will likely open whole new lines of integrative inquiry.

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原型被重新考虑为认知复杂性和进化的动机系统的紧急结果

摘要 当代认知科学的进步表明，我们的内部表征系统受到相互作用的进化、发展和神经计算过程的有力塑造。尽管荣格的集体无意识原型在很大程度上被现代心理学科学所摒弃，但从这些观点的交叉点中出现了与它们非常相似的东西。功能分析表明，各种保守系统——基本的生物系统，如自我保护和交配，以及更复杂的社会系统，如欺骗检测——需要利用更一般的表征系统（如面部感知）来模拟并预测对反复出现的环境问题的适应性反应。此外，类似于发展语言的能力，这些系统依赖于关键发展阶段的特定输入。原型反映了特定领域挑战和领域通用模拟的相互作用。它们是感知、记忆和行动的动态模式，与古老的动机和情感系统产生共鸣。他们阐明了符号是如何从子符号中出现的。因此，原型是我们在三个嵌套动态中发挥的基本社会目标的自然结果：心理模拟系统对现实的在线表示，构建这些系统特定实例的个人经历的历史，以及选择网络的进化动态所有正常发育的人类共有的认知和情感能力。这种对原型概念的现代阐述融合了不同的概念观点，