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concept:coherence-maximizationCoherence Maximization
The functional role consciousness plays: minimizing constraint violations between simultaneously active partial models of reality
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- cimcWhitepapermentions
Thinkers (2)
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- Christoph von der MalsburgintroducesstudiesNeuroscientist whose coherence theory is the direct intellectual foundation for CIMC's coherence hypothesis
- Karl FristonstudiesAuthor of the free energy principle framework; central thinker in the paper.
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- Free Energy Principleanalogous_toA foundational variational principle from statistical physics that formalizes how self-organizing systems maintain structural integrity and adapt to their environment by minimizing free energy—a mathematical bound on surprise or prediction error. Originally developed by Karl Friston, the framework unifies action, perception, and learning as processes of active inference, where systems both update internal models of the world and act upon it to reduce the divergence between predictions and observations.
- Global workspace theoryextendsTheory of consciousness involving a global workspace for information.
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- CIMC's current operational definition, precise enough to generate predictions while subject to revision
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- Request Confirmation NetworksimplementsCIMC's current formalization of coherence-maximization as distributed message-passing where processing units negotiate mutual consistency
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- Finding that relative coherence rankings remain constant across different people and across different cognitive processing tasks (description, memorization, tachistoscopic recognition), establishing coherence as an objective feature of cognitive processing