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concept:gwt-2-limited-capacity-workspace-entailing-a-bottleneck-in-information-flow-and-selective-attention-mechanismGWT-2: Limited capacity workspace, entailing a bottleneck in information flow and selective attention mechanism
Second GWT indicator; the bottleneck and attention mechanism constituting the workspace
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- GWT-2: Limited capacity workspace, entailing a bottleneck and a selective attention mechanismsame_asIndicator: workspace bottleneck with selective attention.
- Fourth GWT indicator; links global workspace to working memory and complex task performance; entails RPT-1
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- Indicator from GWT: existence of specialized parallel modules.
- First of four GWT indicators; claimed necessary for consciousness alongside GWT-2 through GWT-4
- GWT-4: State-dependent attention enabling sequential querying of modules for complex tasksconcept0.781Indicator: state-dependent attention and sequential module recruitment for System 2 thought.
- Indicator: global broadcast to all modules.
- Limited capacity of the workspace relative to the sum of module capacities.
- Point of genuine disagreement with IIT and GWT
- Compression-prediction trade-off; NIS encodes micro-states through an information bottleneck.
- Mathematical equivalence showing the relationship between attention mechanisms and convolutional operations