Although the activation on most concepts gradually decays towards zero, conscious thinking about one group of concepts causes activation to spread downwards into the subconscious and to concentrate activation on conceptual candidates for conscious attention. Thus the subconscious fuels thoughts, ideas and memories for buoyant emergence in what we could have called the SuperConscious as opposed to the SubConscious, but in fact we refer only to consciousness and the subconscious.
http://ai.neocities.org/Consciousness.html The subconscious is a dynamic phenomenon because of the clash between conceptual decay and conceptual activation. Sensory inputs and thinking itself promote the activation of concepts, while sensory deprivation leaves only thinking and dreams or hallucination to activate otherwise quiescent concepts. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08421.html ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2ad0ec9b5d78191b-Mbb23357a56111209d88880f5 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
