A Systems Architecture Approach to the Brain: From Neurons to Consciousness -- Contents -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Scientific Theories -- Complex Operational Systems and Architectural Constraints -- Conditions and Architectural Constraints -- Modular Hierarchies -- Information Exchange between Modules -- The Von Neumann Architecture -- The Recommendation Architecture -- Changes to Conditions in the Recommendation Architecture -- Change Management -- Conditions on Different Levels of Complexity -- Portfolios and Recommendations -- Hierarchy of Behavioural Components -- Activation of Portfolios -- Memory and Indirect Portfolio Activation -- Indirect Activation and Consciousness -- Feelings and Emotions -- Electronic Implementations -- Experimental Predictions -- Approach -- References -- Scientific Theories of Subjective Human Experience -- Summary -- References -- Operationally Complex Systems -- Information Systems and Operational Systems -- Operationally Complex Systems -- Organization of System Resources -- The User Manual and the System Architecture -- Practical Considerations which Constrain Architecture -- Impact of the Practical Considerations on System Architecture -- Conditions and Architectural Constraints -- Modular Hierarchies -- Information Exchange between Modules -- The Von Neumann Architecture -- The Recommendation Architecture -- Changes to Conditions in the Recommendation Architecture -- Change Management -- Conditions on Different Levels of Complexity -- Portfolios and Recommendations -- Hierarchy of Behavioural Components -- Activation of Portfolios -- Memory and Indirect Portfolio Activation -- Indirect Activation and Consciousness -- Feelings and Emotions -- Electronic Implementations -- Experimental Predictions -- Approach -- References -- The Recommendation Architecture -- The Structure of Clustering.

The Structure of Competition -- Major Information Flows and Highest Level Architectural Separations -- Summary of Characteristics of a System with the Recommendation Architecture -- References -- Attention Management -- Neuron Network Dynamics -- Information Content of Neuron Action Potentials -- Information Coding in the Recommendation Architecture Cognitive Model -- Effect of Synaptic Integration Time on Frequency Modulation Mechanism -- Recommendation Architecture Binding Model -- Simulation of the Binding Model -- Conclusions -- References -- Electronic Versions of the Recommendation Architecture -- Device Algorithms in Clustering -- Column Organization and Algorithms -- A Simple Categorization Problem -- Sleep Process -- Adjustable Parameters -- Competition Organization and Algorithms -- Learning Processes and Results -- Simulation of a More Complex Problem -- References -- Comparison with Other Approaches -- Complex Systems Theory -- Theories of Computation -- Physical Systems and the Turing Machine -- Computing and Cognition, and the Deterministic and Non-Deterministic Turing Machines -- Dynamical Systems Theory -- Connectionist Approaches -- The Recommendation Architecture Compared with the Marr Architecture -- The Recommendation Architecture Compared with ART -- Symbol Manipulation and Theories of Knowledge -- The EPAM Model -- Production Systems -- Conclusions -- References -- Neurophysiological Evidence for the Recommendation Architecture -- Physical Structure -- Pattern of Connectivity -- Context for Information Exchange -- Cortex Maps -- Module Management and Sleep with Dreaming -- Neuron Algorithms -- Deficits and the Effects of Physical Damage -- Damage to the Cortex -- Experimental Verification -- Conclusions -- References -- The Recommendation Architecture Cognitive Model -- An Architecture to Support Complex Cognitive Processes.

Information Handling Processes -- Resource Management within Clustering -- The Behavioural Component Hierarchy -- Dynamic Portfolio Populations in the Cognitive Architecture -- Genetic Information -- Imitation -- Bootstrapping of Memory and Behaviour -- Heuristic Specialization of Clustering and Competition Resources -- Significance of the Cognitive Model -- References -- Semantic and Episodic Memory -- Memory within the Recommendation Architecture -- Recognition and Recall -- Explicit and Implicit Memory -- Dichotic Listening -- Semantic Memory -- Episodic Memory -- Memory and Sleep -- The Amnesic Patient HM and the Memory Consolidation Model -- Untitled -- Procedural Memory, Priming, and Working Memory -- Procedural Memory -- Perceptual and Conceptual Priming -- Working Memory -- Memory and the Recommendation Architecture -- References -- Arithmetic Processing -- Architecture for Arithmetic Processing -- An Example of Arithmetic Processing -- Types of Behavioural Recommendations -- The Complexity of the Process -- Learning of Arithmetic -- A Process by which the Necessary Capabilities can be Acquired -- assigned. Accounting for Major Experimental Phenomena -- Other Architectural Approaches -- References -- The Nature of Human Consciousness -- The Definition of Consciousness -- The Causal Phenomena of Consciousness -- Consciousness Models at the Psychological Level of Description -- The Cognitive Model -- Some Key Characteristics of the Model -- Processes Supporting the Causal Relationships of Consciousness -- References -- Future Directions -- The Evolution of Higher Cognition -- The Development of Self Awareness -- Speech Processing -- Design of Intelligent Machines -- Some Other Considerations -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.