Consciousness & the Small Network Argument

• Published in: Neural Networks (ISSN: 0893-6080), vol. 20, num. 9, p. 1054-1056
• Elsevier, 2007

The last decade has experienced a vivid enthusiasm to unravel the mystery of consciousness believed to be one of the major puzzles of humankind. We share this enthusiasm. Still,we feel that current models are incomplete suffering from a problem that we call the "small network argument".

Note: For commentaries see: Taylor <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2007.09.010" class="_doi_link">&nbsp;2007a</a> & <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2007.09.003" class="_doi_link">&nbsp;2007b</a>

Keywords: Neural networks ; Consciousness ; Recurrent connections ; Modelling

Reference

• EPFL-ARTICLE-114131
• doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2007.09.001
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