Toward a computational theory of conscious processing

Toward a computational theory of conscious processing.

The study of the mechanisms of conscious processing has become a productive area of cognitive neuroscience. Here we review some of the recent behavioral and neuroscience data, with the specific goal of constraining present and future theories of the computations underlying conscious processing. Experimental findings imply that most of the brain's computations can be performed in a non-conscious...

Conscious and Unconscious Perception: A Computational Theory

We propose a computational theory of consciousness and model data from three experiments in visual perception. The central idea of our theory is that the contents of consciousness correspond to temporally stable states in an interconnected network of specialized computational modules. Each module incorporates a relaxation search that is concerned with achieving semantically well-formed states. ...

Toward a Computational Theory of Conceptual Metaphor

This paper provides a framework to construct a computational model of conceptual metaphor. We first analyze how conceptual metaphor is described by Algebraic Semiotic at linguistic level and by Institutional Theory (an abstract model theory) at a general logical level. By the Logic of Determination of Objects, which has been used in a system of semantic annotation and in a building ontologies s...

Toward a Theory of Computational Linguistics

Toward a Computational Theory of Mind

Scientific knowledge of the brain and technology of intelligent systems has developed to a point where a computational theory of mind is feasible. This paper briefly describes the RCS (Real-time Control System) reference model architecture that has been used successfully over the past 30 years for designing intelligent systems for a wide variety of applications. It then suggests how RCS can be ...