ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes a theory about the architecture and development of the mind and reviewed research on brain architecture and development. It explores how these two levels of description of the human mind are interrelated. The human mind is organized into systems carrying out different tasks during understanding or problem solving. There are four types of systems: domain-specific, representational, integrative, and cognizance systems. Episodic integration is the starting point of integration geared in the ongoing flow of experience. However, meaning making often requires integration of information in working memory with past encounters and knowledge. Consciousness is an invention of evolution for the sake of monitoring the ongoing flow of information processing and extending experience. Development occurs in recurrent cycles of emergence and alignment yielding insights into the cycle's dominant mental unit and alignment process thereby letting them be re-encoded and metare presented.
