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A collection of some interesting online reading material pertaining to the subjects under discussion.
...Perhaps this is one reason why so much of human thought is "unconscious". Each idea that we have time to contemplate must be a product of many events that happen deeper and earlier in the mind. Each conscious thought must be the end of processes in which it must compete with other proto-thoughts, perhaps by pleading little briefs in little courts. But all that we do sense of that are just the final sentences.
Marvin Minsky - "Computers Can't Think"
...attention appears as a sometimes nonlinear property that results from a topdown biasing effect that influences the competitive and cooperative interactions that work both within cortical areas and between cortical areas. In this paper we describe a detailed dynamical analysis of the synaptic and neuronal spiking mechanisms underlying biased competition.
..How are we to make sense of the data? How are we to order the facts into a more comprehensive totality? What is the story that Nature, through the bits and pieces of empirical facts she has seen fit to share with us, is trying to tell us about the organisation of the complex fucntioning structure that we think of as memory ?
Endel Tulving - "Organisation of Memory "
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