Concept: Structure and role

Each concept has:

• A name, being a SDR: https://github.com/patham9/ANSNA/wiki/SDR:-Input

• A Attention value, consisting of a priority and a durability value.

• A Usage value, indicating when the concept was last used and how often it was used since its existence.

• A table of pre- and post-condition implications that are essentially predictive links, specifying which concepts activate which others: https://github.com/patham9/ANSNA/wiki/Table:-Implication-Revision

• And a FIFO for belief and goal events: https://github.com/patham9/ANSNA/wiki/FIFO:-Event-revision

and has multiple responsibilities:

1. To categorize incoming events by matching them to its SDR: https://github.com/patham9/ANSNA/wiki/SDR:-SDRInheritance-for-matching,-and-its-truth-value To become good representatives, concepts have to encode useful and stable aspects of a situation, conceptual interpolation helps here https://github.com/patham9/ANSNA/wiki/Concept:-Conceptual-Interpolation

2. To support revision, prediction and explanation for native events, see Inference in https://github.com/patham9/ANSNA/wiki

3. To decide how relevant what the concept encodes is currently.

4. To extract commonalities and differences to an for temporal inference incoming events, see Inference in https://github.com/patham9/ANSNA/wiki

5. Learning and revising preconditons and consequences by interacting with an for temporal inference incoming event.