Data flows from left to right along communications layers. High Level Sensing includes complex sensory systems such as video and laser scanning, as well as sound sampling for speech recognition.
Raw data is conditioned into high level abstractions.
High level pattern recognition and sensor fusion happens here. Mid Level Sensing is comprised of simpler, cruder, yet still somewhat complex sensor systems such as sonar and joint position encoders. Mid level sensor fusion. Low Level Sensing covers the most basic sensors such as safety and power sensors, plus low level sensor fusion. High Level Deliberation is proposed to occur as a remotely accessed resource such as Cyc running on a massively parallel supercomputer.