Acknowledgements
This section highlights thinkers, works, and collaborators who have meaningfully influenced or intersected with PET.
Some acknowledgements simply repeat material from the book.
Others go further—extending those connections or exploring where PET might respectfully diverge.
Thinkers & Theories
- Plato and the Allegory of the Pattern
- Aristotle and the Organizing Form
- Descartes and the Cogito
- Wiener and Cybernetic Control
- Singer and the Moral Circle
- Hofstadter and the Strange Loop
- Maturana & Varela – Autopoiesis
- Chalmers and the Hard Problem
- Clark and the Predictive Mind
- Damasio and Biological Selfhood
- Gallagher and the Embodied Challenge
- Metzinger and the Self-Model Theory
- Friston and the Free Energy Principle
- Tegmark and Perceptronium
- Barrett and Constructed Emotion
- Llinás and Oscillatory Consciousness
- Chella and the Narrative Robot
- Thompson and Enactivism
- Kurzweil and Pattern Uploading
Neural Model Comparisons
- Global Workspace Theory (GWT)
- Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
- Higher-Order Theories (HOT)
- Recurrent Processing Theory (RPT)
- Attention Schema Theory (AST)