TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints3677
UR  - http://cogprints.org/3677/
A1  - Wallace, Rodrick
TI  - Consciousness, cognition, and the hierarchy of context: expanding the global neuronal workspace
Y1  - 2004///
N2  - Adapting Dretske's approach on the necessary conditions for mental process, we apply a communication theory analysis of interacting cognitive biological and social modules to the global neuronal workspace. Using an obvious canonical homology with statistical physics, the method, when iterated, generates a fluctuating dynamic threshold recognizably similar to a phase transition in a physical system, but constrained to a manifold/atlas structure analogous to a tunable retina. The resulting 'General Cognitive Model' can be extended in a straightforward manner to include the effects of psychosocial stress, culture, or other cognitive modules which constitute a structured, embedding, hierarchy of contextual constraints acting at a slower rate than neuronal function itself. This produces an empirically-testable 'bipsychosociocultural' treatment of individual consciousness that, while otherwise remarkably similar to the standard development, meets compelling philosophical and other objections to brain-only descriptions.
AV  - public
KW  - atlas
KW  -  cognition
KW  -  consciousness
KW  -  Dretske
KW  -  groupoid
KW  -  information theory
KW  -  renormalization
KW  -  topology
ER  -

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