Abstract Daydreaming
TOWARDS A
COMPUTATIONAL THEORY OF
HUMAN DAYDREAMING*
Erik T. Mueller
Michael G. Dyer
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Computer Science Department
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Citation: Mueller, Erik T. and Dyer, Michael G. (1985). Towards a computational theory of human daydreaming. In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 120-129). Irvine, CA.
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* The work reported here was made possible in part by a grant from the Keck Foundation, with matching funds …
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…sections which follow, we describe the above components. We should note that our theory is not intended to account for 1) mental imagery or the quasi-sensory experiences which are often a part of daydreaming (Singer & Antrobus, 1972; Singer, 1975), 2) the altered state of consciousness (called "fore-consciousness" by Varendonck, 1921) which often accompanies daydreaming, and 3) the subjective "feeling" of consciousness; see, for example, Nagel (1974) and Dennett (1978) for a discussion of the philosophical problems with such an endeavor.
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