Survival attractors — fight, flight, feeding, reproduction. The ancient core. Fixed-point attractors for immediate survival.

Emotional attractors — fear, bonding, reward. The limbic ring wraps around the brainstem. Social memory begins.

Motor policy attractors — learned action sequences, habit formation, reward-based selection. The policy engine of behaviour.

Perceptual and cognitive attractors — pattern recognition, planning, language precursors. The great cortical expansion of mammals.

Self / narrative attractor — the default mode network binds all attractor systems into a unified self-model. Consciousness as coherent narrative.