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How Does Consciousness Overcome Combinatorial Complexity?

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Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Systems

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Mind is a complex information-processing mechanism which causes consciousness—the processed information content of mind. Models are the basic units of information processed in the mind. Comparison is one of the operations that causes consciousness. When we compare two models, the problem of combinatorial complexity (C.C.) arises. In this paper, we describe the way our mind overcomes the difficulty of C.C. and its consequences.

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Acknowledgments

A part of the work presented here was financially supported by DRDO, India. I express my sincere thanks to DRDO for supporting my research through the Project No: ERIP/ER/0704385/M/01/1023.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, N. S. S. College, Nilamel, 689501, Kerala, India

    Reji Kumar

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  1. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, Tamil Nadu, India

    L Padma Suresh

  2. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM Engineering College, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India

    Subhransu Sekhar Dash

  3. Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi

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Kumar, R. (2015). How Does Consciousness Overcome Combinatorial Complexity?. In: Suresh, L., Dash, S., Panigrahi, B. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 325. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2135-7_19

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