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uman beings' capacity for comprehension and empathy. 3.4.4.2 Attentions' Focus Finally, we turn to the notion of an "attentional focus" similar to Baars' [13aa97j notion of a Global Workspace, which will be reviewed in more detail in Chapter 4: a collection of mental entities that are, at a given mo

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nd pattern recognition processes with specialized acoustic and syntactic processing routines. e Consciousness is pragmatically well-understood using Baars’ “global workspace” theory, in which a small subset of the mind’s content is summoned at each time into a “working memory” aka “workspace” aka “atten

nt, for instance, in the 19th-century philosophy of Charles Peirce [Pei34], in the writings of contempo- rary philosophers Daniel Dennett [Den91] and Douglas Hofstadter [Hof79, Hof96], in Benjamin Whorf’s [Who64] linguistic philosophy and Gregory Bateson’s [Bat79] systems theory of mind and nature. Bateson spoke of t

g here. In essence Baars’ Global Workspace Theory (GWT) is a particular hypothesis about how working memory works and the role it plays in the mind. Baars conceives working memory as the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013000 4.5 Globalist versus Localist Representations 85 “inner domain in which we can rehearse tel

r robot movement, may be supplied with a knob that can take on values corresponding to multiple possible movements. Following a metaphor suggested by Douglas Hofstadter [Hof96], MOSES learning covers both “knob twiddling” (setting the values of knobs) and “knob creation.” MOSES is invoked within CogPrime in a number