The Mind in the Coupling: A Philosophy of Cognition Without a Center

Mind is not a substance but a phase a flow enters when it loops richly, holds its basins, and stays open far from rest; cognition lives in the coupling, not the unit, and minds nest inside minds. From the four conditions that turn a current into a cognizer to the fork between the anchored coupling that resolves the world and the adrift one that resolves only its own echo, this companion to The Open System relocates the mind out of the skull and into the between.