Abstract What is “self-awareness”? How can explicit consciousness and sub-consciousness be mapped in relation to each other? How are they related to the self? How can these entities be represented in an artificial conscious system? These questions are the focus of this article. People are aware of only the behavior that they are focusing on; they cannot be directly aware of routine behavior...
Abstract Synthesizing concepts and findings from a number of recent models of human consciousness, a unified model of the key properties characterizing human consciousness is outlined. Six key properties are emphasized: Dynamical representation of the focus of consciousness, Focusing of energetic resources and focusing of informational resources on a subset of system knowledge, Global Workspace...
Abstract Our research purpose is to realize a consciousness system on computers. In this paper, we focus on the relation between a primary system that directly interacts and learns the input-output relation within an environment, and a secondary system that continuously monitors and is able to direct the primary system. We hold that consciousness is not composed of a primary system alone, but...
Abstract An advanced model is proposed that can explain the function in short term adaptation. Associative temporal memory and the function of top-down attention are adopted in the model, in which consciousness and attention are defined as clearly different functions; consciousness is mainly defined as a process of learning as a whole system, and attention is defined as functions that quickly...