TOWARDS A COMPUTATIONAL THEORY OF HUMAN DAYDREAMING* Erik T. Mueller Michael G. Dyer Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Computer Science Department University of California Los Angeles, CA 90024 Citation: Mueller, Erik T. and Dyer, Michael G. (1985). Towards a computational theory of human daydreaming. In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 120-129). Irvine, CA. ________________ * The work reported here was made possible in part by a grant from the Keck Foundation, with matching funds …showed first 75 words of 1664 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1664 total…sections which follow, we describe the above components. We should note that our theory is not intended to account for 1) mental imagery or the quasi-sensory experiences which are often a part of daydreaming (Singer & Antrobus, 1972; Singer, 1975), 2) the altered state of consciousness (called "fore-consciousness" by Varendonck, 1921) which often accompanies daydreaming, and 3) the subjective "feeling" of consciousness; see, for example, Nagel (1974) and Dennett (1978) for a discussion of the philosophical problems with such an endeavor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** None