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For instance, deduction might defer to the "attentional knowledge" subsystem, and make a judgment as to which of the many possible next deductive steps are most associated with the goal of inference and the inference steps taken so far, according to the HebbianLinks constructed by the attention allocation subsystem, based on observed associations. Or, if this fails, deduction might ask MOSES (running in supervised categorization mode) to learn predicates characterizing some of the terms involving the possible next inference steps. Once MOSES provides these new predicates, deduction can then attempt to incorporate these into its inference process, hopefully (though not necessarily) arriving at a higher-confidence next step.

8.4 Some Critical Synergies

Referring back to Figure ??, and summarizing many of the ideas in the previous section, Table ?? enumerates a number of specific ways in which the cognitive processes mentioned in the Figure may synergize with one another, potentially achieving dramatically greater efficiency than would be possible on their own.
Of course, realizing these synergies on the practical algorithmic level requires significant inventiveness and may be approached in many different ways. The specifics of how CogPrime manifests these synergies are discussed in many following chapters.

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Row Headers: Uncertain inference, Supervised procedure learning, Attention allocation, Concept creation
Column Headers: Map formation, Goal system, Simulation, Sensorimotor pattern recognition

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- Creates new concepts and relationships, enabling briefer useful inference trails
- Goal refinement enables more careful goal-based inference pruning
- Simulations provide a method of testing speculative inferential conclusions
- Creates new concepts and relationships, enabling briefer useful inference trails
- Creates new procedures to be used as modules in candidate procedures
- Extraction of sensorimotor patterns allows creation of abstracted fitness functions
- Creates new concepts grouping "attentionally related" memory items
- Utility of concepts may be assessed via creating simulated entities embodying the new concepts

Fig. 8.3: This table, and the following ones, show some of the synergies between the primary cognitive processes explicitly used in CogPrime.

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