Connectionists: Weird beliefs about consciousness

[Brad Wyble]

Tsvi you wrote:

>
>  For example in cognitive psychology there is a rich literature on
> salience (which again is a bit different from salience in the neural
> network community).  Salience is a dynamic process which determines how
> well a certain input or input feature is processed. Salience changes in the
> brain depending on what other inputs or features are concurrently present
> or what the person is instructed to focus on.  There is very little
> appreciation, integration or implementation of these findings in neural
> networks, yet salience plays a factor in every recognition decision and
> modality including smell and touch.
>
>
I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by this, since computational
modelling of salience is a major thrust of computer vision.  Itti Koch &
Niebur (1998) has been cited 13,000 times and there are hundreds of papers
that have elaborated on this ANN approach to salience computation in
vision.  Is this not what you're asking for?  If not, what am I
misunderstanding?

kind regards
-Brad
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