Modeling the subjective perspective of consciousness and its role in the control of behaviours
arXiv Preprint Archive December 23, 2020 D. Rudrauf, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, O. Belli et al.
Consciousness may function as a global workspace that integrates multimodal information, monitors expectations, and guides action. Using the Projective Consciousness Model, which draws on projective geometry, the authors operationalize subjective perspective and show how it can account for an inverse distance law linking appraisal and distance. They develop a generative model of affective and epistemic drives based on subjective parameters like apparent object size, and extend it to implement Theory of Mind consistent with simulation theory. Simulations of artificial agents, grounded in psychological rationale, demonstrate how varying model parameters produce adaptive and maladaptive behaviors relevant to clinical and developmental psychology, including resilience, joint attention, false-belief exploitation, social anxiety avoidance, and restricted interests in autism. Agent behaviors were also demonstrated in a robotic context.