Finding Mind

Contents

Sixty-eight numbered chapters, five unnumbered ones and four interludes, in three acts. Everything below is the current draft, generated from the book's own source.

The Pledge

⁂The Permitted Sayinterlude1Prolegomena to Finding Mind664 words2The Ordinary World4,506 words3Information, Causation, and the Blind Spot3,322 words4Finding the Shape1,658 words5Inside and Outside, and What it Means to Assume the Virtue1,166 wordsHow to Read This Book3,471 wordsRelated Work, and Where This Differs3,665 words

The Turn

⁂The Foam-Borninterlude

Part IThe Machinery: From GSLTs to Cost-Accounted Theories

6What a Language Presentation Is, and Why It Comes First1,362 words7Graph-Structured Lambda Theories2,920 words8Interactive GSLTs, and the Site of Interaction1,887 words9Continued Interactive GSLTs1,465 words10The Category of GSLTs1,675 words11The Cost Monad1,770 words12The History Monad800 words13Weighting: Rates from the Generated Logic5,547 words14Cost-Accounted Rho1,696 words15Conversion, Enzymes, and the Virtual Token1,184 words16The Labeled Transition System and Context-Decorated HML1,101 words17What Goes Into a Logic2,118 words18Scopes, and the Fixed Points that Generate Them2,694 words19Generating Type Systems: OSLF and the Hypercube2,797 words20Instruments: Making Structure Visible to Bisimulation6,612 words

Part IIEcology as Cognitive Architecture

21The Mortal Scientist24,604 words22Learning to Play11,930 words23Composing Learners13,073 words24Enzymes and Individuals14,096 words25A Network That Learns by Rewriting3,830 words

Part IIISuffering: Homeostasis and the Learner's Own Account

26Suffering: A Learner’s View of Its Own Account4,660 words

Part IVSituating the Learner: A Variety of Possible Physics

27The Learner’s World Already Has a Physics1,707 words28The Reversibility Construction1,014 words29Causal Structure and Time855 words30Decoration: One Map, Many Semirings2,208 words31Conservation, and What It Costs to Have It3,441 words32Extended Modal Operators1,097 words33Complex Amplitudes, and Where the Coherence Is2,507 words34Synthesis: The Full Structure1,148 words35Entropy, and the Cost of Staying Level1,231 words36Discussion and Future Directions936 words

Part VWhy Scientists Get Misled: Emergent Ontology in Massive Agent Populations

37Introduction749 words38Ontological Isolation425 words39Agents and the Scientific Method741 words40Behavioral Primes456 words41Massive Populations and Communication Degradation476 words42The Logical Topology and Compactness1,560 words43Coherence Clusters and Their Nerve675 words44The Apparent Ontology1,084 words45Open Gaps and Future Work428 words46Discussion459 words

Part VIOrigins of Life: Assembly Theory, Phase Transitions, and Replication

47Introduction516 words48Assembly Theory: Causal Depth and Copy Number1,288 words49Replication as a Fixed Point369 words50Smith’s Phase Transition and the Density of Attractors876 words51Metabolism, Energy Gradients, and the Ecosystem1,606 words52Assembly Index and the Depth of the Fractal Learner2,194 words53Scope and Manufacture7,270 words54Open Gaps946 words55Discussion755 words

Conclusion

What Has Been Built1,370 wordsA View from Inside the Framework587 wordsWhat Remains to Be Done375 words

The Prestige

⁂begotten not madeinterlude

Part VIIThe Method, and What It Left Out

56How the Trick Was Done5,480 words57Everything So Far Was Turing Complete2,115 words58The Tower of Oracle Extensions1,475 words59Not Every Cut Is an Aperture4,626 words60Where Does Agency Live?5,689 words61Choice Principles are the Types; Schedulers are the Terms3,345 words62Consciousness, and the World It Comes With2,691 words63What These Chapters Owe1,434 words

Part VIIIReference, Simulation, Reception, and a Future Metaphysics

64What a Symbol System Would Have to Be6,798 words65If This Is a Simulation, Which Kind2,663 words66What It Is Like to Be a Bot10,943 words67How Life-Like Is Life-Like Enough?4,126 words68Any Future Metaphysics7,384 words⁂Right-Sizingcoda