Functional Brain Anatomy for AIs
At any given moment you might feel you are aware or conscious of the world at large and as a whole but that is merely an illusion, in reality you can only process a very small fraction of things, at this very moment for instance you are really only aware of a few mm on your screen ( about a words length ) and if you are looking at your computer screen you are probably unaware of what’s happening behind you and only vaguely aware of your surroundings, attention is evolutions answer to this very problem and here we will look in brief at the anatomy and mechanisms from a systems point of view and their significance and use in current and future AIs.
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A first pass at defining attention involves an environment with many things in it and our limited capacity to process them, so attention is the mental ability to increase fidelity ( focus on or isolate ) a stimulus, thought or action while ignoring or lowering fidelity on others:
