Includes bibliographical references and index.

Going for the elegant outcome: Dolphins are as dolphins do -- Leveraging the wave: The dolphin's special secrets -- Up periscope: the critical dolphin skill of breaking set -- Being "on purpose": avoiding "the fate that aches" -- "Vision building": steering through the brain's "time window" -- Release to a higher order: the dolphin's pièce de résistance -- Orchestrating perturbation: how dolphins "push the envelope" -- The dolphin's "autocatalytic" world: can we shift in time?.

This book is about a powerful new strategy: one that has sprung full blown of late from a brain that understands that the world has changed and therefore so must we. What must change is the quality and quantity of our awareness of complexity and our skills and comfort level in working with it. In their domination of human history, the carp and shark strategies of information processing have posted severe limitations on what humans can notice and how much freedom they will be permitted in response to a changing world.