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concept:gwt-2-limited-capacity-workspace-entailing-a-bottleneck-and-a-selective-attention-mechanismGWT-2: Limited capacity workspace, entailing a bottleneck and a selective attention mechanism
Indicator: workspace bottleneck with selective attention.
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- Global workspace theoryassociated_withTheory of consciousness involving a global workspace for information.
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- Selective attention mechanismassociated_withMechanism that selects information from modules for representation in the global workspace.
- Information bottleneck in workspaceassociated_withLimited capacity of the workspace relative to the sum of module capacities.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Indicator from GWT: existence of specialized parallel modules.
- GWT-4: State-dependent attention enabling sequential querying of modules for complex tasksconcept0.805Indicator: state-dependent attention and sequential module recruitment for System 2 thought.
- Indicator: global broadcast to all modules.
- Point of genuine disagreement with IIT and GWT
- Case study conclusion.
- Critique of the oracle/supervised frame.
- Cited as causal intervention methodology precedent for this paper's ablation approach
- Mathematical equivalence showing the relationship between attention mechanisms and convolutional operations