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The Architecture of the Brain: Multi-Level Organization, Dynamics and Principles of Cognitive Functioning presents a theoretical framework for understanding the human brain as a developing, multi-level physical system.

The book examines how brain morphology, cellular organization, local microcircuits, large-scale structural connectivity, neural dynamics, plasticity, and cognitive processes relate to one another. Rather than reducing cognition to a single mechanism or level of analysis, it develops an architecture-dynamic model in which multiple levels interact while remaining conceptually distinct.

Particular attention is given to perception, attention, memory, learning, thinking, decision-making, consciousness, subjectivity, selfhood, and agency. The book also explores how biological development, experience, and the social and cultural environment shape cognitive organization over time.

A central idea is that development does not consist only of moving more effectively within an existing space of possibilities. In some cases, the architecture of that space itself can change, opening new forms of organization, behavior, and cognition.

The book distinguishes established empirical findings from working hypotheses and theoretical model propositions, and is intended for readers interested in neuroscience, cognitive science, consciousness studies, philosophy of mind, psychology, and complex biological systems.

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