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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

rithms carrying out separate functions, encapsulated in black boxes and communicating results with each other." For instance, PolyScheme, ACT-R and CLARION all display this "modularity" property to a significant extent. These architectures lack the rich, real-time interaction between the intents/ dynam

w several hybrid architectures in more detail, focusing most deeply on LIDA and MicroPsi which have been directly inspirational for CogPrime. 4.5.1 CLARION Ron Sun's CLARION architecture (see Figure 4.9) is interesting in its combination of symbolic and neural aspects - a combination that is used in 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

intelligence will involve a combination of symbolic and non-symbolic processing.” A few of the more important hybrid cognitive architectures are: ¢ CLARION [SZ04] is a hybrid architecture that combines a symbolic component for reason- ing on “explicit knowledge” with a connectionist component for managin

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

chematics and production rules or other similar constructs, is that in CogPrime this level of knowledge representation is not the only important one. CLARION [SZ04], as reviewed above, is an example of a cognitive architecture that uses production rules for explicit knowledge representation and then uses a