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Denitions Used in This Book
Circles of mind: A metaphor that was created from the Baars theater model (1997)
as a circular theater model (Vanharanta 2003). The components and contents as such
are the same, but the physical model, the metaphor, is different. Conscious experi-
ence is in the middle of the model, and the players and audience are situated around
it. The spotlight controller, director, and the context form the outer circles that sur-
round the audience systems.
Concept: The constituents of thoughts (Margolis and Laurence 2014). Something
conceived in the mind (thought, notion), or an abstract or generic idea generalized
from pa ...