Implications of resource limitations for a conscious machine

Neurocomputing

Volumn 72, Issue 4-6, 2009, Pages 767-788

  Coward, L Andrew ^a   Gedeon, Tamas O ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Information model; System design; System resource architecture

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS; COMPLEX LEARNINGS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN BRAINS; HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESSES; INFORMATION HANDLINGS; INFORMATION MODEL; INFORMATION PROCESSES; PRIOR WORKS; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; SUB SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DESIGN; SYSTEM RESOURCE ARCHITECTURE;

ARCHITECTURE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DICHOTIC LISTENING; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MACHINE LEARNING; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SIMULATION;

EID: 58149472682     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2008.06.015     Document Type: Article

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