Consciousness & the small network argument

Neural Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1054-1056

  Herzog, Michael H ^a   Esfeld, Michael ^b   Gerstner, Wulfram ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Modelling; Neural networks; Recurrent connections

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CONSCIOUSNESS; PUZZLES; RECURRENT CONNECTIONS;

RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 35848933234     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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