Cognitive Architecture
The transparent holographic regularities have been shown to lend themselves for transparallel processing. This means that, in the process of selecting a simplest code from among all possible codes, O(2N) codes can be taken into account as if only one code of length N were concerned. This supports the computational tractability of simplest codes and, thereby, the feasibility of the simplicity principle in perceptual organization.
To enable transparallel processing, SIT's formal model gathers candidate codes (of only the input at hand) in special distributed representations called hyperstrings (a form of feature binding). These hyperstrings can be seen as formal counterparts of transient neural assemblies which signal their presence by firing synchronization of the neurons involved. This gives rise to a concrete picture of flexible cognitive architecture implemented in the relatively rigid neural architecture of the brain. That is, these temporarily synchronized assemblies can be called "gnosons" (i.e., fundamental particles of cognition) whose synchronization might well be a manifestation of transparallel feature processing.
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