Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to
manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic …

Traditional approaches model consciousness as the outcome either of internal
computational processes or of cognitive structures. We advance an alternative hypothesis …

We thank the commentators for an extraordinarily diverse and constructive set of comments.
Nearly all applaud our goal of sketching a unified science of change, even while raising …

In the field of cognitive bioinspired robotics, we focus on autonomous development, and
propose a possible model to explain how humans generate and pursue new goals that are …

At the core of Wilson et al.´ s paper stands the question of intentional change. We propose to
extend this notion by introducing concepts from the domains of innovation and knowledge …

The issue of integration in neural networks is intimately connected with that of
consciousness. In this paper, integration as an effective level of physical organization is …

Wilson et al. draw our attention to the problem of a science of intentional change. We stress
the connection between their approach and existing paradigms for learning and goal …

Domain-general mechanisms are evolutionarily ancient, resulting from the evolution of
affective cues signaling the attainment of evolutionary goals. Explicit processing is a …

Biophysics of Consciousness : THE CAUSAL ROOTS OF INTEGRATION AND THE UNITY OF
CONSCIOUSNESS Page 1 189 6 THE CAUSAL ROOTS OF INTEGRATION AND THE UNITY OF …

Consciousness is not only a philosophical but also a technological issue, since a conscious
agent has evolutionary advantages. Thus, to replicate a biological level of intelligence in a …