Title
Conscious agent networks: Formal analysis and application to cognition.
Abstract
Networks of “conscious agents” (CAs) as defined by Hoffman and Prakash (2014) are shown to provide a robust and intuitive representation of perceptual and cognitive processes in the context of the Interface Theory of Perception (Hoffman, Singh and Prakash, 2015). The behavior of the simplest CA networks is analyzed exhaustively. The construction of short- and long-term memories and the implementation of attention, categorization and case-based planning are demonstrated. These results show that robust perception and cognition can be modelled independently of any ontological assumptions about the world in which an agent is embedded. Any agent-world interaction can, in particular, also be represented as an agent-agent interaction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.cogsys.2017.10.003
Cognitive Systems Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Active inference,Complex networks,Computation,Learning,Memory,Planning,Predictive coding,Self representation,Reference frame,Turing completeness
Ontology,Self representation,Turing completeness,Computer science,Cognitive science,Cognitive psychology,Predictive coding,Complex network,Artificial intelligence,Cognition,Categorization,Perception,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
47
1389-0417
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chris A. Fields16553.02
Donald D. Hoffman27270.57
Chetan Prakash310.69
Singh, Manish4132.12