Perceptual Information Processing System Mimics Human's Sleep-Wake Function

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to design a mathematical model for a robot vision, that can express states of human's consciousness, especially waking and sleep. Human beings process external information obtained from sensory organs and internal information accumulated within a brain flexibly and in parallel. The proposed mathematical consciousness model, that mimics this human's information processing system, controls a ratio among multiple kinds of external and internal information processing run in parallel. In a waking mode, the external information is mainly processed. In a sleep mode, large proportion of processing is paused, or the internal information is mainly processed.