Introduction to the Fractality Principle of Consciousness and the Sentyon Postulate

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-28

  Bieberich, Erhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal; Global workspace; Information sharing; Network; Recurrent

Indexed keywords

BRAIN STRUCTURE; COMPLETE INFORMATION; COMPUTING DEVICES; FRACTALITY; FRACTALIZATION; GLOBAL WORKSPACE; HIGHER ORDER; HUMAN BRAIN; INFORMATION SHARING; ITERATIVE MAPPING; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NEW FORMS; NEW MODEL; RECURRENT;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FRACTALS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

BRAIN MAPPING;

EID: 84858754015     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-011-9104-5     Document Type: Article

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