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8.3 Cognitive Synergy in CogPrime
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[Diagram: Cognitive Processes Associated with Types of Memory]

Declarative Memory
Uncertain Inference: deduction, induction, abduction, etc.
Unsupervised Pattern Mining
Concept creation: including blending

Sensorimotor Memory
Modality specific memory: Body map for haptics & kinesthetics, hierarchical memory for vision, etc.
Specialized pattern recognition: Creates patterns linking modality-specific stores into declarative, procedural and episodic memory

Attentional Memory & System Control

Dynamic attention allocation:
Dynamically determining the space and time resources allocated to memory items, for resource allocation & credit assignment

Map formation
Identification and reification of global emergent memory patterns

Goal System
Refinement of given goals into subgoals; allocation of resources among goals

Procedural Memory
Supervised program learning
Learning of a program given a "fitness function"
Deliberative planning
Done in an uncertainty-savvy way

Episodic Memory
Internal Simulation of historical and hypothetical external events
Spacetime interface: special mechanisms for linking spatiotemporal experiential knowledge with declarative and procedural knowledge

Fig. 8.2: High-level overview of the key cognitive dynamics considered here in the context of cognitive synergy. The cognitive synergy principle describes the behavior of a system as it pursues a set of goals (which in most cases may be assumed to be supplied to the system "a priori", but then refined by inference and other processes). The assumed intelligent agent model is roughly as follows: At each time the system chooses a set of procedures to execute, based on its judgments regarding which procedures will best help it achieve its goals in the current context. These procedures may involve external actions (e.g. involving conversation, or controlling an agent in a simulated world) and/or internal cognitive actions. In order to make these judgments it must effectively manage declarative, procedural, episodic, sensory and attentional memory, each of which is associated with specific algorithms and structures as depicted in the diagram. There are also global processes spanning all the forms of memory, including the allocation of attention to different memory items and cognitive processes, and the identification and reification of system-wide activity patterns (the latter referred to as "map formation")

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Table 8.6: Key OpenCogPrime cognitive processes categorized according to knowledge type and process type

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