2. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Deliberation and Voluntary Action Stan Franklin and the Conscious Software Research Group

3. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Sloman’s Architecture

4. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Cognitive Cycle Steps CC1—Preconscious Perception CC2—Percept to Preconscious Buffers CC3—Retrieve Local Associations CC4—Competition for Consciousness CC5—Conscious Broadcast CC6—Recruitment of Resources CC7—Setting Goal-context Hierarchy CC8—Action Chosen CC9—Action Taken

5. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Perception via a Slipnet preferenceacceptance information request location San Diego Miami Norfolk Jacksonville... Norfolk norfolk norNRFK

6. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Memory Systems Working memory Focus Sparse Distribute Memory — Boolean Space — dim = N (enough to code features) bit vector PerceptionBehavior NetEmotionDeliberation Job List Outgoing Message

7. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Coalitions and Consciousness Coalition manager Spotlight manager Broadcast mechanism

8. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Behavior Net in Action Behavior net templates Behavior net Side lines Playing field Stands Work Space Broadcast

9. CogSciSem Stan Franklin A Behavior Stream Find and move a template Compose an acknowledgment Find an email address Drive to Acknowledge From the Sidelines Activation from drive Activation from the environment, external or internal Send an acknowledgement

10. CogSciSem Stan Franklin “Consciousness” in Action Associative Memories Working memory Focus Playing Field Stands Outgoing Message Job List

11. CogSciSem Stan Franklin IDA’s Deliberation Create scenes –May require objects, actors, concepts, relations, frames –Organized around events Build scenarios as sequences of scenes Choose between scenarios, discarding some Using Barsalou’s perceptual symbol systems as a guide

12. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Deliberation in Action Associative Memories Working memory Focus Playing Field Stands Job List Detach Date Detach Date Detach Date Leave Time Leave Time Leave Time

13. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Ideomotor Theory William James (circa 1890) ----- Bernard Baars (1988) Voluntary vs non-voluntary action Theory of voluntary action –Proposers—propose a course of action –Objectors—raise objections to such a course of action –Supporters—lend support to such a course of action –Auctioneer—wields the gavel

14. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Ideomotor Theory in Action Idea pops to mind (proposer)—no objection (objector)—do it Objection (objector)—don’t do it Objection then support (supporter) do it Different proposal—no objection do it Different proposal—original proposal—no objection—do it Last unopposed proposal is acted upon

15. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Metacognition Thinking about thinking What Sloman calls meta-management Influences action selection strategies –More or less opportunistic, thoughtful or goal-oriented Influences resource allocation Fuzzy classifier system

16. CogSciSem Stan Franklin Web and Email Addresses Stan Franklin stan.franklin@memphis.edu— www.cs.memphis.edu/~franklin “Conscious” Software Research Group www.cs.memphis.edu/~csrg CMattie Project—www.msci.memphis.edu/~cmattie IDA Project—www.msci.memphis.edu/~ida