A dual-process Qualia Modeling Framework (QMF)
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- 作者：Sandra L. Vaughan
- 关键词：Dual-process theory ; Qualia ; Hypernetworks ; Integrated Information Theory (IIT) ; Consciousness ; Stanovich&rsquo ; s tripartite framework
- 刊名：Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：17
- 期：Complete
- 页码：71-85
- 全文大小：1395 K
文摘
We present the software implementation of our Qualia Modeling Framework (QMF), a computational cognitive model based on the dual-process theory, which theorizes that reasoning and decision making rely on integrated experiences from two interactive minds: the autonomous mind, without the agent’s conscious awareness, and the reflective mind, of which the agent is consciously aware. In the QMF, artificial qualia are the vocabulary of the conscious mind, required to reason over conceptual memory, and generate cognitive inferences. The autonomous mind employs pattern-matching, for fast reasoning over episodic memories. An ACT-R model with conventional declarative memory represents the autonomous mind. A second ACT-R model, with an unconventional implementation of declarative memory utilizing a hypernetwork theory based model of qualia space, represents the reflective mind. Using real-world, non-trivial, data sets, our cognitive model achieved classification accuracy comparable to, or greater than, analogous machine learning classifiers kNN and DT, while providing improvements in flexibility by allowing the Target Attribute to be identified or changed any time during training and testing. We advance the BICA challenge by providing a generalizable, efficient, algorithm which models the phenomenal structure of consciousness as proposed by a contemporary theory, and provides an effective decision aid in complex environments where data are too broad or diverse for a human to evaluate without computational assistance.