Neurocognitive Mechanisms A Situated, Multilevel, Mechanistic, Neurocomputational, Representational Framework for Biological Cognition

I introduce three themes: egalitarian ontology, explanatory integration, and neural computation-cum-representation. I argue that all levels of composition and realization are ontologically on a par (no level is more fundamental than the others). In addition, I argue that all levels and their relations must be studied and integrated within multilevel mechanistic explanations. Finally, I argue that neural computation and representations ought to be understood in their own right and cognition explained in their terms. In the end, biological cognition is explained by situated, multilevel, neurocomputational, representational mechanisms.