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Part II
Origins of suffering:
uncontrollability and uncertainty

The second part will consider how uncontrollable the world as well as the cognitive system itself are, and how an agent’s perceptions and thinking are uncertain and can even be called illusory

10 Emotions and desires as interrupts
10.1 Computation is one aspect of emotions
10.2 Emotions interrupt ongoing processing
10.3 Desire as an emotion and interrupt
10.4 Emotions include hard-wired action sequences
10.5 How interrupts increase suffering
10.6 Emotions are boundedly rational
11 Thoughts wandering by default
11.1 Wandering thoughts and the default-mode network
11.2 Wandering thoughts as replay and planning
11.3 Replay and planning focus on reinforcing events
11.4 Replay exists in rats, humans, and machines
11.5 Wandering thoughts multiply suffering
12 Perception as construction of the world
12.1 Vision only seems to be effortless and certain
12.2 Perception as unconscious inference
12.3 Prior information can be learned
12.4 Illusions as inference that goes wrong
12.5 Attention as input selection
12.6 Subjectivity and context-dependence of perception
12.7 Reward loss as mere percept
12.8 Ancient philosophers on perception
13 Distributed processing and no-self philosophy
13.1 Are you really in control?
13.2 Necessity of parallel and distributed processing
13.3 Central executive and society of mind
13.4 Control as mere percept of functionality
13.5 Philosophy of no-self and no-doer
14 Consciousness as the ultimate illusion
14.1 Information processing vs. subjective experience
14.2 The computational function of human consciousness
14.3 The origin of conscious experience
14.4 Why is simulated suffering conscious?
14.5 Self vs. consciousness
14.6 Nothing is real?

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