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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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ve pattern recognition as well as static pattern recognition. Audition likely utilizes a similar hierarchy. Olfaction may use something more like a Hopfield attractor neural network, as described in Chapter 13. The networks corresponding to different sense modalities have multiple cross-linkages, more a

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

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tive pattern recognition as well as static pattern recognition. Audition likely utilizes a similar hierarchy. Olfaction may use something more like a Hopfield attractor neural network, as described in Chapter 13. The networks corresponding to different sense modalities have multiple cross-linkages, more at

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 EFTA00623860 4.5 Globslist versus Localist Representations 85 "inner domain in which we can rehearse telephone n

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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

RSIGHT_013017 102 5 A Generic Architecture of Human-Like Cognition touch and smell (the latter being better modeled as something like an asymmetric Hopfield net, prone to frequent chaotic dynamics [LLW~05]) — these may also cross-connect with each other and with the more hierarchical perceptual subnetwork