The architecture of biological minds has been shaped by evolutionary pressure to reach the maximal complexity of the human mind. The cognitive science efforts to address the organisational aspects of minds have been always hampered by the sheer complexity, the limited modularity and the observational difficulties concerning fully functional neural systems. In this talk we will address the issues of mind organisation from a systems-theoretical standpoint, offering some insights concerning natural mind taxonomies and showing their relations with their artificial counterparts. In this talk we will propose an architectural model for mind organisation that starts from the basics of homeostasis and autonomic aspects reaching the complexity levels of emotional and cognitive aspects. In this architectural picture, consciousness will be addressed as a convergence point for cognitive-emotional metacontrol systems.

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