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 …

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 human brain is a biological system produced by the evolutionary process, and thus,
cognitive neuroscience is itself a branch of evolutionary biology. Accordingly, cognitive …

Psychology is a theoretically heterogeneous discipline seeking a single, cohesive
framework to unite the subdisciplines. To address this issue, I propose a hierarchical …

Cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and dynamical systems theory have all been
proposed as frameworks for linking the diverse subdisciplines of psychology with one …

Does evolutionary theorizing have a role in psychology? This is a more contentious issue
than one might imagine, given that, as evolved creatures, the answer must surely be yes …

The human brain is a biological system produced by the evolutionary process, and so
cognitive neuroscience is itself a branch of modem evolutionary biology. Accordingly …

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 …

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 …