We present IDyOT (Wiggins, 2012b), the Information Dynamics of Thinking, a novel cognitive architecture that instantiates
the (much more abstract) Global Workspace Theory of Baars (1988), in a way motivated by a principle of
efficiency in information processing. IDyOT simulates a hypothetical fundamental perceptual/cognitive loop, explicating
bottom-up learning of concepts, the hierarchical structure in them, and the correlations between them from
percepts. Even though the proposal is basically cognitive, embodiment is not ruled out, and the tight connection between
perception and cognition potentially affords a future extension of the account to an embodied view.