Soft Selves and Ecological Control
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Introduction Advanced biological brains are by nature open-ended opportunistic controllers. Such controllers compute, pretty much on a moment-tomoment basis, what problem-solving resources are readily available and recruit them into temporary problem-solving wholes. Neural
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