Abstract

: The recently introduced Static and Dynamic State (SDS) Feedback control scheme together with its modified form, the Data Compression and Reconstruction (DCR) architecture that performs pseudoinverse computation, suggests a unified model of cortical processing including consciousness. The constraints of the model are outlined here and the features of the cortical architecture that are suggested and sometimes dictated by these constraints are listed. Constraints are imposed on cortical layers, e.g., (1) the model prescribes a connectivity substructure that is shown to fit the main properties of the `basic neural circuit' of the cerebral cortex (Shepherd and Koch [1], Douglas and Martin [2] In: The synaptic organization of the brain, Oxford University Press, 1990), and (2) the stability requirements of the pseudoinverse method offer an explanation for the columnar organization of the cortex. Constraints are also imposed on the hierarchy of cortical areas, e.g., the proposed control arc...

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