Brian Capleton

Preface
Part 1 - Introduction
Intelligence and Consciousness
The IIP-VGF Framework
Environment Entanglement in the Species
Partitions
Part 2 - Intelligence and Evolution
Intelligence is Emergent
Intelligence as a Functor
The Functorial View of Evolving Intelligence
The Effects of Redundancy
The Nature of Evolution
The True Nature of Decoherence
The Decoherence of Intelligence and Coherence Recovery
The Interaction of Coherence and Decoherence
Coherence Recovery
Part 3 - Deep Time
The Geologic Calendar
Nested Geological Time Units
Quantum Decoherence and Evolutionary Intelligence
The IIP-VGF and the Phylogenetic Tree
Part 4 - The Brain
Iteration in the Brain
Neuroplasticity Seen as Redundant VGF Loop Stabilisation
Nesting in Neural Intelligence - Hierarchies of Coherence and Redundancy
Cross Frequency Coupling (CFC) in the Brain
Cognition and the Brain
The Mind
Conclusion