From Computation to Thinking
Part I
Machines That Follow Rules
1
Moving Symbols
2
One Machine for Every Rulebook
3
The Walls
Part II
Machines That Find Rules
4
Writing the Nurse's Rules by Hand
5
Learning
6
Why Learning Can Work at All
7
Learning to See and Hear
Part III
Machines That Predict Language
8
Predicting the Next Word
Part IV
From Predictor to Agent
9
Imitation
10
Learning from Consequences
11
Thinking Out Loud
12
Agents
13
How Big Is It? The Machine in Numbers You Can Picture
Part V
What It Is, Really
14
Meaning
15
Agency and Curiosity
16
The Walls Again, and Knowing When to Stop
Coda
Is Anyone Home?
Part VI
Living with It
17
The Machine on the Ward
18
Replace or Relieve? The Nurse and the Machine
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The whole ladder
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Version 0.59 · October 2026
The first public edition.