Attentional Quantum Model: functional structure

Attentional Quantum Model:
functional structure

autopoietic organization for producing and maintainig activity patterns
- generating energetical continua
  - a continuum correlated with external energies (allo-generated)
  - a continuum controlled by internal energies
- performing discrete attentional processing
  - producing a focus of attention as the momentary center of the pattern building process
  - generating mental units (categories and percepts)
    - discretizing the internal continuum: producing "attentional quanta" as the building bricks of mental patterns
    - discretizing the allo-generated continuum
      - selecting between many parallel running front-end processes (auditory, visual, olfactory, etc.)
      - focusing on (making present) the selected front-end process
      - cutting into discrete intervals (fragmenting) the selected front-end process
    - combining quanta and fragments into units
  - assembling many individual units
- integrating assemblies into the system of all assemblies
- etc.
etc.

Š1998,M.Bettoni,CZM,Fachhochschule beider Basel

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