The Seven Dialogs

Dialog 1: Basic Mechanics
How animal brains model the world and pursue goals

Dialog 2: The Gateway Opens
How the human brain gained an additional functional process – looping

Dialog 3: Dreams and Reconstruction/Construction
First validation of the framework – dreams and how they reveal the brain’s construction of experience

Dialog 4: The Hardest Questions Become Clear
More validations – split-brain, blindsight, and the true source of conscious experience

Dialog 5: They Saw It Before
Traces of the looping framework in world religions, mythologies, and philosophy

Dialog 6: An Emergent Realm
Extending the framework – looping and the realm of effation

Dialog 7: Ethics and Integration
Applying the framework to ethics, meaning, and eudaimonia