This article presents a unifying theory of the embodied, situated human brain called the
Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind (HMM). The HMM describes the brain as a complex …

The purpose of this review was to integrate leading paradigms in psychology and
neuroscience with a theory of the embodied, situated human brain, called the Hierarchically …

The free-energy principle (FEP) is a formal model of neuronal processes that is widely
recognised in neuroscience as a unifying theory of the brain and biobehaviour. More …

In this programmatic paper we explain why a radical embodied cognitive neuroscience is
needed. We argue for such a claim based on problems that have arisen in cognitive …

Studies of mind, thought and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-
world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and cognitive …

How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and
scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness …

Although the ultimate aim of neuroscientific enquiry is to gain an understanding of the brain
and how its workings relate to the mind, the majority of current efforts are largely focused on …

Mathematical approaches to modeling the mind since the 1950s are reviewed, including
artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and neural networks. I analyze difficulties faced by …

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

Progress in understanding cognition requires a quantitative, theoretical framework,
grounded in the other natural sciences and able to bridge between implementational …