Emergence, Mind, and Consciousness: A Bio-Inspired Design for a Conscious Agent Book

Contents

Preface....................xiii
Introduction As Simple as Possible....................XVII
Chapter 1 The Organization Effect....................3
Chapter 2 Tumbling Toward Cognition....................19
Chapter 3 Mediating Aboutness....................43
Chapter 4 A Lattice of Knowers....................61
Chapter 5 A Three Streams Architecture....................79
Chapter 6 The Planning Stream....................87
Chapter 7 The Perceptual Stream....................105
Chapter 8 The Interoceptive Stream....................135
Chapter 9 Thinking in Streams....................155
Chapter 10 Mapping Space and Bridging Time....................171
Chapter 11 It Binds, Therefore I Am....................193
Chapter 12 The Steering Committee....................217
Chapter 13 The Upward Spiral....................243
Chapter 14 Attention Managing....................267
Chapter 15 Reaching Up With Signs....................291
Chapter 16 An Incremental Storm....................317
Chapter 17 The Extended Self....................343
Chapter 18 A Cog in Cultural Minds....................363
Chapter 19 The Stuff of Consciousness....................389
Notes and References....................415
Index....................455