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CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 433-449Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2005.11.005
Keywords
global workspace theory; simulation hypothesis; models of consciousness
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/C51050X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This paper proposes a brain-inspired cognitive architecture that incorporates approximations to the concepts of consciousness, imagination, and emotion. To emulate the empirically established cognitive efficacy of conscious as opposed to non-conscious information processing in the mammalian brain, the architecture adopts a model of information flow from global workspace theory. Cognitive functions such as anticipation and planning are realised through internal simulation of interaction with the environment. Action selection, in both actual and internally simulated interaction with the environment, is mediated by affect. An implementation of the architecture is described which is based on weightless neurons and is used to control a simulated robot. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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