Two varieties of unconscious processes

Franklin, Stan; Baars, Bernard J.

doi:10.1075/aicr.79.14fra

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“…In the wider context of the cognitive cycle every conscious process is preceded by a set of preconscious processes that are potentially capable of entering consciousness (Dehaene et al, 2006; Franklin and Baars, 2010). According to the ideas brought forth in this article, none of the competing activity patterns representing the preconscious processes is a fully developed attractor.…”

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A new perspective on the functioning of the brain and the mechanisms behind conscious processes

Keppler¹

2013

Front. Psychol.

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An essential prerequisite for the development of a theory of consciousness is the clarification of the fundamental mechanisms underlying conscious processes. In this article I present an approach that sheds new light on these mechanisms. This approach builds on stochastic electrodynamics (SED), a promising theoretical framework that provides a deeper understanding of quantum systems and reveals the origin of quantum phenomena. I outline the most important concepts and findings of SED and interpret the neurophysiological body of evidence in the context of these findings, indicating that the functioning of the brain rests upon exactly the same principles that are characteristic for quantum systems. On this basis, I construct a new hypothesis on the mechanisms behind conscious processes and discuss the new perspectives this hypothesis opens up for consciousness research. In particular, it offers the possibility of elucidating the relationship between brain and consciousness, of specifying the connection between consciousness and information, and of answering the question of what distinguishes conscious processes from unconscious processes.

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A new perspective on the functioning of the brain and the mechanisms behind conscious processes

Keppler¹

2013

Front. Psychol.

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“…The first is a distinction between levels of conscious access. LIDA identifies three levels of conscious access of mental processes or representations: 1) Never conscious means unable to ever become conscious, 2) Preconscious means potentially, but not currently, conscious, and 3) Conscious means it is part of the content of a conscious broadcast (Dehaene, Changeux, Naccache, Sackur, & Sergent, 2006;Franklin & Baars, 2010). LIDA also distinguishes between four types of action selection: volitional, consciously mediated, automatized, and alarm.…”

Section: Single-cycle Motivational Processes In Lidamentioning

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“…In volitional (deliberative) action selection (decision making) much of the selection process itself is conscious, that is, a part of successive contents of consciousness (Franklin, 2000). Consciously mediated action selection may occur in each of LIDA's cognitive cycles, when a never-conscious selection process consults the current contents of consciousness during its choosing of the next action (Franklin & Baars, 2010;Franklin, et al, 2012). Automatized action selection occurs when one action calls the next via a never-conscious process, and without use of the current contents of consciousness Negatu, 2006).…”

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Artificial Motivation for Cognitive Software Agents

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Franklin

Faghihi

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Journal of Artificial General Intelligence

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Natural selection has imbued biological agents with motivations moving them to act for survival and reproduction, as well as to learn so as to support both. Artificial agents also require motivations to act in a goal-directed manner and to learn appropriately into various memories. Here we present a biologically inspired motivation system, based on feelings (including emotions) integrated within the LIDA cognitive architecture at a fundamental level. This motivational system, operating within LIDA’s cognitive cycle, provides a repertoire of motivational capacities operating over a range of time scales of increasing complexity. These include alarms, appraisal mechanisms, appetence and aversion, and deliberation and planning.

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“…GWT postulates that the brain's multitude of relatively small, special purpose processes are almost always unconscious [Franklin and Baars, 2010]. Communication between them is rare and over a narrow bandwidth.…”

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“…Consciously mediated action selection is the name given in LIDA to the action selection process that takes place during each single cognitive cycle. This method is implicit in the sense that selection mechanism, although crucially based on the conscious broadcast, is entirely unconscious, in fact, never conscious [Franklin and Baars, 2010]. Note that consciously mediated actions are always selected during a single cycle.…”

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confidence: 99%