Global broadcast and attention can be highly punctuated in fuzzy cognitive systems
Division of Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, United States
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- Subject Areas
- Computational Biology, Evolutionary Studies, Mathematical Biology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience
- Keywords
- information theory, biocognition, renormalization, index theorem, groupoid
- Copyright
- © 2013 Wallace
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Cite this article
- 2013. Global broadcast and attention can be highly punctuated in fuzzy cognitive systems. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e34v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.34v2
Abstract
Previous theoretical work on consciousness and other punctuated global broadcasts associated with attention states has focused on the evolutionary exaptation of the inevitable crosstalk between related sets of unconscious cognitive modules (UCM). This has invoked a groupoid treatment of the equivalence class structure arising from information sources 'dual', in a formal sense, to the UCM, via a standard spontaneous symmetry breaking/lifting methodology abducted from statistical physics, and through an index theorem approach based on an Onsager-like stochastic differential equations model. Surprisingly, similar arguments can be applied to the formally 'fuzzy' generalizations that are likely to better fit actual biological complexities.