Paper Info
Title
The Mechanism of Thought
Abstract
A fast winners-take-all competition process, termed confabulation, is proposed as the fundamental mechanism of all aspects of cognition (vision, hearing, planning, language, initiation of thought and movement, etc.). Multiple, contemporaneous, mutually interacting confabulations -in which millions of items of relevant knowledge are applied in parallel -are typically employed in thinking. At the beginning of such a multiconfabulation, billions of distinct, potentially viable, conclusion sets are considered. At the end, only one remains. This fast, massively parallel application of relevant knowledge (an alien kind of information processing with no analogue in today's computational intelligence, computational neurobiology, or computer science) is hypothesized to be the core explanation for the information processing effectiveness of thought. This paper presents a synopsis of this confabulation theory of human cortical and thalamic function.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/IJCNN.2006.246712
Vancouver, BC
Keywords
Field
DocType
cognition,neurophysiology,cognition,human cortical,information processing,multiple contemporaneous mutually interacting confabulations,thalamic function,winners-take-all competition process
Information processing,Neurophysiology,Computational intelligence,Computer science,Massively parallel,Cognitive science,Artificial intelligence,Cognition,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2161-4393
0-7803-9490-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Hecht-Nielsen1448110.50
Hecht-Nielsen, R.210.40