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Online-Ressource (digital)
ISBN:
9780387767659
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Content:
An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness. This latest book takes a more formal 'groupoid' perspective to its predecessor and generalizes the results presented in that earlier book. It applies a multiple-workspace version of Dr. Wallace's earlier consciousness model to large-scale institutional cognition.
Content:
An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness implementing approaches developed previously by the cognitive scientist Bernard Baars and the philosopher Fred Dretske. This book takes a more formal 'groupoid' perspective and generalizes the results of that book to processes of 'distributed cognition' characteristic of large institutions that can entertain several, sometimes many, simultaneous 'global workspaces' which must compete for resources while communicating and cooperating. Equivalence classes of 'states' produce a network of language-analogs characterizing interacting cognitive modules which entertain multiple workspaces. Equivalence classes of these language-analogs produce dynamical manifolds describing temporal processes carried out by multiple-workspace institutions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Front Matter; Introduction; Consciousness And Distributed Cognition; Formal Theory; Pathologies Of Collective Consciousness; Disease And Collective Consciousness; The Failure Of Aids Control And Treatment In The Us; Final Remarks; Mathematical appendix; References; Back Matter
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780387767642
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Wallace, Rodrick Collective consciousness and its discontents [Berlin] : Springer, 2008 ISBN 9780387767642
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0387767649
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-0-387-76765-9
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