Mozer, Michael
<p>Feb 23, 2009 10:56 PM</p>
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Michael Mozer Univ of Colo at Boulder</p>
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see his Theories of Consciousness on my computer... exclt pdf slides for my talk.</p>
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his interest and bkground is identical to mine. dynamite slide set...</p>
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<b>Conscious states are interpretations
Attractor state is an interpretation.</b></p>
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<b>Conscious states require high quality representations</b>
Any attractor state is a high quality representation, in the sense that adding noise
moves away from attractor and also lowers quality of a representation.
Probably makes more sense to focus on <b>familiarity</b> than quality:
Familiarity a natural way of explaining how pathway A can have an effect on
pathway B.</p>
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Conscious states require temporal persistence</p>
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Conscious states require explicit representations</p>
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Conscious states are attractors</p>
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Consciousness entails global availability of information to to
widespread brain sources
Baars, Dehaene & Naccache: global workspace framework
My story requires functional connectivity between perceptual and response
pathways for access to occur.
<b>Frontal areas could provide this functional connectivity, s</b>o global workspace ideas
complement my story.</p>
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Attention is a prerequisite for consciousness
In my story, attention is not necessary, but it makes awareness more likely:
<b>Standard notion of attention is to amplify some representations. Attractor
corresponding to amplified representation more likely to be chosen.</b>
I.e., biased competition notion can apply to this sort of model as well</p>