This first section provides a setting (a base, or starting point) for the investigation by introducing the main hypotheses and the approach, and by looking at assumptions and boundary issues. It provides motivation for the subsequent investigation through a theoretical analysis of information requirements and information flows for both action and perception. It introduces the synthetic approach to look at the roots of language, i.e. conjectures about precursors to human language and their role in evolution.
The first chapter explores boundaries between public and private information, and lays out some other, hopefully non-controversial, assumptions.
The second chapter looks at information flow from perception, action, and memory perspectives.
The third chapter introduces basic concepts of learning. These concepts help to link us back to evolution.
The fourth and fifth chapters continue with learning and introduce the concept of an inner language.
The sixth chapter introduces the concepts of prediction and planning
The final chapter is a summary