Marco Bernini is Assistant Professor of Cognitive Literary Studies at Durham University. He specializes in narrative theory, modernism, and cognitive approaches to literature.

• Preface


• Acknowledgments
  


• Chapter 1: Modeling the Apparent Self


• 1.1. Awakening in the Bioscope: Wertheimers Law, Predictive Self, and Chronotopic Groundlessness


• 1.2. A Torrent of Meiosis: Fissions, Relations, and the Pearl View Explored


• 1.3. Introspection by Simulation: Inner Third-Person, Polyphony, and Centerless Storyworlds


• 1.4. Toward the Seed of Motion: Close and Beyond the Center of Narrative Gravity
  


• Chapter 2: A Brain Listening to Itself


• 2.1. Tracing a Phenomenological Continuum: From the Clinical to the Fictional


• 2.2. Theorizing a Modeling Continuum: From AVHs to Inner Speech


• 2.3. Detuning a Fundamental Sound: Mediacy, Co-Modeling, and the Narrated Self


• 2.4. The Dialogic Cloud: On Memory and Co-Presence
  


• Chapter 3: Synesthetic Innerscapes


• 3.1. Landscapes of Consciousness as Landscapes of Action: QuasiPerceptual Minds and the Basics of Innerscapes


• 3.2. Sculpting Latencies: Introspective Affordances, Narrativity, and Personal Geographies


• 3.3. Windows of Presence: Inner Ecologies and Dreamlike Worlds


• 3.4. In the Night That Tells No Tales: Synesthesia, Narrative, Table Lamps, and Magic Lanterns
  


• Chapter 4: Cognitive Liminalism


• 4.1. The Principle of Liminality: Limens and Limes across Domains


• 4.2. Toward Cognitive Liminalism: Impeded Logomotion and Deflated Narrative Gravity


• 4.3. Residual Teleodynamics and Maximal Prediction Errors: Emotions, Absential Features, and Cognitive Impenetrability


• 4.4. Cognitive Conceptual Personae: Enacting Sense-Making without Making Sense
  


• Chapter 5: Emergence and Complexity


• 5.1. Against the Aboutness of Complexity: From Narrative Chaotics to Blueprints for Emergence


• 5.2. Neural and Mental Complexity: A Matter of Levels


• 5.3. The Dynamic Core of the Onion: Patterns, Nodes, Signals, and Boundaries
  


• Conclusion: Toward a Phenomenogeology of Consciousness and the Co-Modeling of Cognition
  


• References


• Becketts Works Cited


• Index

Beckett and the Cognitive Method argues that Samuel Beckett's narrative work inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative as a cognitive modeling technology. Through a detailed analysis of Beckett's entire corpus and published volumes of letters, this book argues that Beckett pioneered a new method of writing to construct (in a mode analogous to scientific inquiry)'models' for the exploration of core laws, processes, and dynamics in the human mind.