The emergent mind: how intelligence arises in people and machines

Your mind is a neural network. An invitation ; How could the mind arise from the brain? ; What does a neural network do?

Activation produces thought and action. A neural network as a memory system ; Context matters ; The things we do

Knowledge and learning: they're in your connections. Making (and losing) meaning ; The emergent thinking machine ; When we learn, we change connections

Extening and applying the neural network framework. Our emergent thoughts ; Implications of the nueral network framework for ourselves and for AI.