Saturday, August 1, 2026

Exploring the contents of consciousness

A common model of consciousness* is the blackboard model. At each time step every layer** of the A.s.a. hierarchy outputs its N most active cases/categories to the blackboard using something like: 

1010 OPEN "f:asahb.dat" FOR APPEND AS #5

1011 FOR case = 1 TO N

1012 PRINT #5, level; case; activity(case)

1013 NEXT case

In turn, each level/layer of A.s.a. H. reads the file/blackboard for input (the M strongest activations).

In this model the asahb data file contains the contents of consciousness recorded as a function of time.

* See my blog of 29 June 2011

** See my blogs of 10 February 2011 and 14 May 2012 as possible simple examples.

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