How the NETofANs-model explains representation, intentionality, and much of the process that generates the contents of awareness
The first and essential step in the process that generates the contents of awareness is the establishment of representational brain featuresaccording to the NETofANs-model, this occurs through a process of multi-level self-organization and emergence in a network of attractor-dominated networks of neurons or NETofANs. We analyze how processes involving representational brain features can result in intelligent behaviors, including categorization of reality-features, conceptualization of percepts, existential-problem solving, imagination, and thought. The NETofANs-model explains "representation" and "intentionality" in terms of dynamical systems and thereby establishes a theoretical basis for the naturalization of semantics and the construction of semantic agents.
representation intentionality conceptualization perception network of attractor-networks